ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL

ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL, ST IGNATIUS SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219021
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL, ST IGNATIUS SQUARE

St Ignatius School. Circa 1836-42, probably by J.J. Scoles. Enlarged in 1856 and also between 1866 and 1880. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219021
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL, ST IGNATIUS SQUARE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL, ST IGNATIUS 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 54153 29981

Details

SD5429NW 941-1/10/259

PRESTON ST IGNATIUS SQUARE St Ignatius School

GV II School. c.1836-42, probably by J.J.Scoles, enlarged 1856 and between 1866 and 1880; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Double-pile plan on north-south axis, single storeyed under a 2-span roof, the west range extended northwards, and with additions including a 2-storey wing in the angle. Tudor style, with octagonal corner turrets, parapets with ridged coping, and large mullion-and-transom windows. The east range, which is symmetrical and least altered, has a central gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway (now blocked) with dagger spandrels, dripmould and embattled parapet; three 6-light windows each side, with short Tudor-arched upper lights; and parapeted gables, that to the left with a chimney. The west front, formerly symmetrical and with a similar porch (still in use), has been extended 4 windows northwards, and all the windows now have C20 six-light joinery (inverting the proportions of the originals). The additions at the north end include a tall 2-storey crosswing gabled to the east, which has in the upper storey 3 tall transomed windows, that in the centre of 9 lights with 2 transoms, a statue in a niche above this, and the date 188[ ].

Forms group with St Ignatius Presbytery, to which it is now linked by additions to that, though originally separate.

Listing NGR: SD5416829974

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Legacy System number:: 392151
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.