St Marys Junior School

ST MARYS JUNIOR SCHOOL, CHICHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208702
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1981
List Entry Name:
St Marys Junior School
Statutory Address:
ST MARYS JUNIOR SCHOOL, CHICHESTER ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208702
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1981
List Entry Name:
St Marys Junior School
Statutory Address 1:
ST MARYS JUNIOR SCHOOL, CHICHESTER ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST MARYS JUNIOR SCHOOL, CHICHESTER ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 83378 96038

Details

SJ 89 NW, 698-1/4/715

MANCHESTER, CHICHESTER ROAD,
Hulme (East side),

St Mary's Junior School

23/04/81

GV

II

School, now Social Services centre. 1855-60. Red brick with
blue brick bands and sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched
fishscale slate roof. Hall and crosswing plan, with wing at
south end. One-storey hall and 2-storey wing to same height.
The hall has buttresses with offsets, and two tall gabled
6-light transomed windows breaking the eaves, with cusped
lights and 2-centred arched relieving arches and arch-bands of
blue brick; a gabled porch in the angle with the wing, with
2-centred arched doorway which has a chamfered surround,
hoodmould, and double doors with strap hinges (and a C20
flat-roofed addition to the left of the porch). The gable of
the wing has two windows each of two cusped lights at ground
floor, and a large 2-centred arched 3-light window at first
floor with circular tracery in the head. The north gable wall
of the hall is almost completely filled by a very large
2-centred arched transomed 14-light window with plate tracery;
the rear is similar to the front, but has a projecting gabled
porch now surrounded by C20 additions which enclose the rear
of the wing. Forms group with Church of St Mary UPPER MOSS
LANE (q.v.), St Mary's Rectory, PARSONAGE STREET (q.v.), and
Moss Side People's Centre, ST MARY'S STREET (q.v.).


Listing NGR: SJ8337896038

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Legacy System number:
388013
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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