Maryvale Institute
MARYVALE INSTITUTE, OLD OSCOTT HILL B44
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1076213
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Maryvale Institute
- Statutory Address:
- MARYVALE INSTITUTE, OLD OSCOTT HILL B44
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1076213
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Maryvale Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARYVALE INSTITUTE, OLD OSCOTT HILL B44
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MARYVALE INSTITUTE, OLD OSCOTT HILL B44
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07415 94534
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/02/2013
SP 09 SE
3/26
25.4.52
BIRMINGHAM
OLD OSCOTT HILL
Old Oscott (B44)
Maryvale Institute
(Formerly listed as Maryvale Convent (Convent of Mercy))
(Formerly listed as St Mary's Convent of Mercy, Maryvale)
II*
Roman Catholic theological institute, originally RC bishop's house. The oldest part of the building is the 1752 house built for the RC Bishop, Thomas Hornyhold; red brick, 3 storeys, symmetrical 3-bays, 2 windows per bay, articulated by plain pilasters, moulded wood eaves cornice, old tile roof, flanking corniced chimney stacks, sash windows with glazing bars and flat stucco arches and key blocks on ground and first floor; open-well stair and 1752 chapel on second floor, now subdivided but with cornice surviving. 1778 [first Catholic Relief Act] brick chapel, externally plain, with round-arched windows, added at right-angles and open through two storeys with Ionic order, murals, only the classical wooden reredos and a now detached late C17 Flemish baroque altar survive from the various reorderings. John Milner added in 1800 the Sanctuary, in 1809 the long 3-storey wing at right-angles to the original house with simple stick baluster and ramped handrail staircase, and in 1816 Milner added tile external colonnade to link both buildings and a 2-storey lecture room, now reduced to a single storey Doric portico. Also in 1816 Milner added on the second floor the Sacred Heart Chapel, a vaulted room with delicate Gothic stucco detailing; tile stained glass, image of the Sacred Heart, is probably by Eginton, the Birmingham stained glass pioneer. Maryvale is very significant in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England. It was a Roman Catholic Mission in the C17 and from 1794-1834 the Catholic Seminary of the Midlands. From 1846-48 it was the first Catholic congregation following Newman's conversion.
Source: Mulvey, B. St Mary in the Valley, A History of Maryvale House.
Listing NGR: SP0741594534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217475
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mulvey, B, St Mary in the Valley A History of Maryvale House, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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