St Josephs Orphanage
ST JOSEPHS ORPHANAGE, THEATRE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207336
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Josephs Orphanage
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOSEPHS ORPHANAGE, THEATRE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207336
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Josephs Orphanage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOSEPHS ORPHANAGE, THEATRE 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 JOSEPHS ORPHANAGE, THEATRE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 53688 29152
Details
PRESTON
SD5329SE THEATRE STREET 941-1/11/277 (West side) 20/04/88 St Joseph's Orphanage
II
Orphanage, now nursing home. 1872, by R.W.Hughes for patron Mrs Maria Holland. Red brick in English bond with blue brick and sandstone ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. L-plan formed by main range on east-west axis facing north and long chapel wing projecting on the east side, with porch tower in angle. High Victorian Gothic style. Two storeys with basements and attics. Tower has main entrance in base, with 2-centred moulded stone arch under blue-red brick relieving arch, panelled door and overlight (plain glass replacing stained glass), buttress to right, and plaque above door lettered "St Joseph's Orphanage / Erected and endowed by / Mrs Maria Holland / 1872"; 2 lancet windows below the belfry stage which has offset angle buttresses and louvred 2-light openings with colonettes and 2-centred relieving arch, and a 2-stage pyramidal spire interrupted by mid-height windows. The main range has a gabled centre breaking forwards, with a projected ground floor lit by transomed windows beneath a band of cross motifs, 2 pairs of arched windows at 1st floor each with a recessed oculus beneath the relieving arch, an oculus above with a hoodmould, and a half-hipped roof; and its outer bays have 2-centred arches to the ground floor windows, and small segmental-headed windows beneath ornamented brick eaves. The chapel wing to the left has large arched 2-light windows with original patterned glazing, and one has stained glass. Rear elevation is symmetrical, in similar style, with gabled ends and centre, and has (inter alia) a statue in a canopied niche. Hospital wings added to east end and attached to west end.
Listing NGR: SD5368829152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392173
- 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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