This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
BOLTON
SD71SW ASTLEY STREET 797-1/2/12 (South side) 26/04/74 Former All Soul's School (Formerly Listed as: ASTLEY STREET (South side) School to east of Church of All Souls)
GV II
Church school, now community centre. c1880. Probably by Paley and Austin, the architects of the adjoining Church of All Souls (qv). Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: the building comprises 2 blocks at right angles to each other, with entrance porch in their angle. Left hand range (parallel to street) is single storey with 4 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with plain tracery, linked by a continuous hoodmould. Moulded stone parapet. Gabled entrance porch with moulded stone doorway with geometrical traceried overlight and asymmetrical hoodmould. Range at right angles to street is 2 storey, with paired traceried mullioned and transomed window on each floor in gable, with billet moulding to transom of first-floor window.
Coped gable with finial. 5-window range return with 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, arched to ground floor, flat headed to first floor, both with drop-ended hoodmoulds. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD7142510892
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 IOE Records taken by Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Jackson, Pamela
Rights Holder: Jackson, Pamela
Brick, Slate, Stone, Victorian Church School, Education, School, Community Centre, Civil
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