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St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School

A Grade II Listed Building in Broadfield, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6975 / 53°41'50"N

Longitude: -2.6986 / 2°41'55"W

OS Eastings: 353970

OS Northings: 422566

OS Grid: SD539225

Mapcode National: GBR 9TLP.K8

Mapcode Global: WH860.JB58

Plus Code: 9C5VM8W2+XH

Entry Name: St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School

Listing Date: 26 July 1951

Last Amended: 27 February 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1361864

English Heritage Legacy ID: 357949

ID on this website: 101361864

Location: Golden Hill, South Ribble, Lancashire, PR25

County: Lancashire

District: South Ribble

Electoral Ward/Division: Broadfield

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leyland

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Leyland St Ambrose

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


SD 52SW LEYLAND SCHOOL LANE

8/43 St. Mary's RC Junior School
26.7.1951 (formerly listed as No.90(Golden
Hill Schools))
- II

Charity School 1784, altered and enlarged as National School 1816. Stone,
stone slate roof with one chimney on the ridge, another at left gable.
L-shaped plan of 5 bays with attached master's house at right end. Two
storeys; stone quoins, bands at sill level and at 1st floor. Original
front entrance in centre of south side now altered as a window, with a
rectangular stone tablet above, lettered:
In the Year of our Lord
1784
This Charity School was founded endowed and erected by
Richard Balshaw Gentleman
For Instructing the Children of the Poor only of this Parish,
In Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in the English Tongue,
And in the principles of the Church of England As by Law Established
The Girls to be taught also to Knit Sew and Mark.

Left of this a 3-light window rises the full height and has at lst floor
level a Venetian form matched by all the other windows: one on each floor
to the left, 2 on each floor to the right. To the right, the master's
house with projecting gabled centre bay in compatible style and materials;
and at the rear of the original school a single storey extension with 2
venetian windows and slate roof.


Listing NGR: SD5397022566

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