St Boniface School
ST BONIFACE SCHOOL, CECIL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130016
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Boniface School
- Statutory Address:
- ST BONIFACE SCHOOL, CECIL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130016
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Boniface School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST BONIFACE SCHOOL, CECIL STREET
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.
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:
- ST BONIFACE SCHOOL, CECIL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4712854850
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654 CECIL STREET, Stonehouse
740-1/57/722 (West side)
St Boniface School
GV II
Bishop's house, now a school. 1859, probably by JA Hansom,
enlarged 1899. Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone
dressings including string courses; steep dry slate roofs with
coped gables; rear gabled dormers breaking the eaves and
hipped dormers front and rear of original house; stone stacks
with some render: end stacks except for large outbuilt lateral
stack to rear of original part. Gothic Revival style. Large
irregular plan with cross wing to left of original part,
another wing right of porch, the 1899 part with deeper plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic to original part otherwise 2
storeys plus attic; irregular 11-bay front. Transomed 2-light
and 3-light mullioned windows to most of the front openings, a
few with transoms to rear, many with 4-centred arched lights;
relieving arches. Original house has embattled porch between
wings and 4-centred arched doorway plus sidelights. Wing right
of porch has 3-light windows to front, single lights to
returns, and the wing has a hipped roof with the ridge running
over a gabled dormer, the barge boards forming an ogee arch. 2
light windows to bay right of this and then there is a
recessed 2-storey bay at far right adjoining the S aisle of
the St Mary & St Boniface RC Cathedral, Wyndham Street West
(qv). This bay has large gable over 2-light window breaking
the eaves, over a 3-light window. 1899 part on the left has
3-light windows, the central bay breaking the eaves under a
gable with a cross finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Prominently sited next to the RC Cathedral (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
674).
Listing NGR: SX4712854850
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473230
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 674
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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