LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS

LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1024954
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS
Statutory Address:: LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1024954
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS
Statutory Address 1:: LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE

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District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 25491 67122

Details

NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BEMERSYDE DRIVE (north side, off)

9/91 La Sagesse School, Jesmond Towers, (Formerly listed in 17.12.71 Jesmond Dene Road.)

G.V. II*

Large house, now school. Early C19, additions 1817 and 1823-7 by Dobson for Sir Thomas Burdon; enlarged 1869 by T. Oliver and 1884 by T.R. Spence for Charles Mitchell. Sandstone ashlar, with Welsh slate roofs to canted bays and graduated Lakeland slate roofs elsewhere. Irregular plan. Gothic style. 2 and 3 storeys, 9 irregular bays. Partly-glazed door recessed in Gothic porch with panelled ceiling; 4-light flanking windows with Y-tracery. 2 cusped lights to square-headed windows above, with tall panelled buttresses flanking entrance bay and ending in pinnacles. Pierced balustrade either side and central stepped parapet with coat of arms. A variety of canted, oriel and square bay windows with stone mullions, some also transomed, and some traceried; drip moulds, buttresses, parapets, some gabled with sloping battlements, some pierced. Gallery at left has high central parapet and corner turrets with large acanthus bud finials. 3-storey tower to rear has battlemented parapet. Interior shows stone-arched entrance hall with tiled floor; Gothic ashlar chimney piece and similar-style cast iron grate; vine and oak carving to corniced surrounds of billiard-room doors which have painted glass panels; high quality painted glass in other windows in billiard room, gallery and small sitting room at right end. The latter has finely-moulded stucco cornice and frieze with foliage patterns; painted dado in arts-and-crafts style. Stair in right part of house has delicate Gothic balustrade, with pendants to landing triple arch; and stucco Gothic-panelled soffits above doors. Gallery at left, built to display paintings, has top lights and end windows; ornate stucco frieze and cornice, panelled coved ceiling. Source: W.F. Dendy "An Account of Jesmond" Archaeologia Aeliana 3 I 173-4; Newcastle Daily Journal 16 January 1865; Tyne and Wear Archives Department T186/365, T186/10335.

Listing NGR: NZ2532967174

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Sources

Books and journals
'Archaeologia Aeliana' in Archaeologia Aeliana - Third Series, , Vol. 1, (), 173-4
'Newcastle Daily Journal' in 16 January, (1865)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.