Description

SK 51 NW
5/75

PARK ROAD
(north side)
Our Lady's Convent and
School adjoining

II

Convent, with chapel, priest's house and school. Begun 1850, and built slowly
during the next few decades (Chapel 1863-4,School altered 1889, priest's house late
C19). By Charles Hansom. Red brick with whitened headers and stone dressings,
Swithland slate roofs (school has plain tile roof) with white brick crosses in the
gable ends. Gothic Revival. Convent buildings round cloister porch, with chapel to
west and priest's house and school to south. The school is linked to the convent by
a range built 1855 to form 3 sides of a quadrangle. Two-storeys and attic. East
facade of convent 7 window range. Four-centred doorway to left. Two dormers and
2 red brick chimney stacks in slope of roof, the left-hand one with 2 lancets.
Fenestration mostly pairs of cusped lancets, some with transoms, with casement
windows and glazing bars, beneath segmental brick relieving arches. Apsidal chapel
with side chapels, lit by "Geometrical" traceried Windows (ritual north windows
C20), has waggon roof carried on corbels and west gallery. Reredos by Theodore
Phyffers 1873. School re-windowed in keeping with convent and 2-storey porch and
verandah added 1889. Mortuary chapel by Charles Hansom's son, and infant's school
in Italianate style in grounds. House of Rosminian sisters, founded by Mary Agnes
Amherst. C20 additions to school not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SK5358718969

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26409231

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)