St Mary's Shopping Centre West Building
ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE WEST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212794
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Shopping Centre West Building
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE WEST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212794
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Shopping Centre West Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE WEST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE
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 MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE WEST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92140 23148
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9223SW ST MARY'S PLACE 590-1/10/92 (South side) 28/01/87 St Mary's Shopping Centre west building (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY'S PLACE (South side) St Mary's Church of England School)
GV II
Former school and master's house, now shops. 1856, converted 1990. By Sir Gilbert Scott. Brick with ashlar facades; tile roof with fishscale bands. L-plan. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: single storey with 2-storey house to north; 3-window south range and 4-window west range with re-entrant gabled porch. Coped gables; windows of 2 or 3 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights. South range has entrance with segmental-pointed head to left of centre; 3 windows of 3 lights; C20 gabled dormer. Porch has pointed arch and return half arches leading to through passage; trefoil to gable. West range has 2 entrances with segmental-pointed heads; 2-light window to left end and 3 windows of 3 lights; former house has 3-light window to ground floor and 1st floor 2-light window; right return has gabled wing to right and lean-to re-entrant porch with segmental-pointed entrance to return; 2-light window to left; C20 raking dormer over porch and gable end as to front. C20 glazed canopies on enriched cast-iron piers. Rear of south range is brick, with short gabled wing. Rear of west range is of brick; ashlar 1st floor and lateral stack and gabled projection to former house; short gabled wing; longer wing to right end has hipped roof with belvedere. INTERIOR: arch-braced collar roof trusses. The building forms a courtyard group with the former St Mary's Church of England Infants' School, qv, to east, immediately to the south of the Church of St Mary, where Scott carried out one of the earliest of his many restorations. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (extract from Vol VI): London: 1979-1982: 261).
Listing NGR: SJ9214023148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384043
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 261
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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