St Wilfrids Presbytery (Part)
1A, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207342
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- St Wilfrids Presbytery (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- 1A, CHAPEL STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207342
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- St Wilfrids Presbytery (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1A, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART), 1, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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:
- 1A, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART), 1, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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 53770 29180
Details
PRESTON
SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/290 (North side) 27/09/79 No.1 St Wilfrid's Presbytery (part) (Formerly Listed as: WINCKLEY SQUARE (North side) Nos.1, 2 AND 3 St Wilfrid's Presbytery)
GV II
Includes: No.1A CHAPEL STREET. Pair of large town houses on corner site; No.1A Chapel Street now offices, and No.1 Winckley Square now integrated with Nos.2 and 3 as presbytery. c.1804, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond (side and rear in 4+1 English garden wall bond), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-pile plan under single-span roof. Three storeys over cellars, 5+5 bays to Winckley Square, each house symmetrical; stone plinth and 1st floor sill-band (both carried round left return wall to Chapel Street), moulded gutter cornice. No.1 Winckley Square (the right-hand of the pair) has a wide elliptical- arched doorway in the centre, with brick voussoirs now painted black, 2 steps up to a set-in stone tripartite doorcase which has plain side panels, reeded jambs and lintel, and a modern glazed door (now fixed), all under a large fanlight with pendent oval tracery and margin panes; No.1A Chapel Street has no entrance in this facade. The windows of both houses have raised sills and wedge lintels, those at 1st floor furnished with small segmental cast-iron balconies with hooped railings, fixed to the wall with pairs of fleur-de-lys brackets; No.1A Chapel Street has sashes without glazing bars at ground and 1st floors, No.1 Winckley Square has 12-pane sashes at ground floor and 8-pane sashes at 1st floor, and both have 9-pane sashes at 2nd floor. The gabled left return wall (the entrance front of No.1A Chapel Street), 6 bays, has a wide round-headed doorway in the 4th bay (up 2 steps) with a set-in wooden pilastered doorcase and a fanlight with radiating pseudo-glazing bars of iron (some replaced with lead strips); and fenestration matching the facade to Winckley Square but with only 4 windows at 2nd floor, and the sill of a former attic window above. Rear: sashed windows replaced with casements. INTERIOR: both have fine open-well staircases with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrails, illuminated by domed oval skylights; No.1A Chapel Street now has under-drawn ceilings said to conceal moulded plaster decoration, and is otherwise altered. No.1 Winckley Square has extensive cellars; ground-floor front rooms and entrance hall now all in one (as refectory), but retaining Gothick geometrical moulded plaster decoration to the ceilings, and a black marble fireplace with fluted Ionic columns; in the left room above, a white marble fireplace with fluted surround.
Listing NGR: SD5376929182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392187
- 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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