Our Lady's Convent and School Adjoining
OUR LADY'S CONVENT AND SCHOOL ADJOINING, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115510
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Our Lady's Convent and School Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- OUR LADY'S CONVENT AND SCHOOL ADJOINING, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115510
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Our Lady's Convent and School Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUR LADY'S CONVENT AND SCHOOL ADJOINING, PARK ROAD
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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:
- OUR LADY'S CONVENT AND SCHOOL ADJOINING, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5358718969
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189446
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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