Cathedral School Including Attached Wall, Rilings and Doorway
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, RILINGS AND DOORWAY, BALMORAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219944
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral School Including Attached Wall, Rilings and Doorway
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, RILINGS AND DOORWAY, BALMORAL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219944
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral School Including Attached Wall, Rilings and Doorway
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, RILINGS AND DOORWAY, BALMORAL 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.
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:
- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, RILINGS AND DOORWAY, BALMORAL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48180 61482
Details
LANCASTER
SD4861 BALMORAL ROAD 1685-1/5/13 (North side) Cathedral School, including attached wall, railings and doorway
GV II
Roman Catholic school. 1897. Designed by Paley and Austin. Gothic Revival style. Snecked sandstone rubble, and slate roofs with coped gables. Built on sloping ground with 4 gables facing the road. The right-hand (uphill) pair of gables originally belonged to the School Room, wider and taller and with 3 windows, and to the Classroom block, with 2 windows. Each window has 2 trefoiled lights with a transom, with a quatrefoil or cinquefoil in the head under the chamfered pointed outer arch. To left 2 further gables project forwards slightly and are of a full 2 storeys. Each has a similar 2-light window, in a pointed outer arch, with transom at the centre of the 1st floor, plus each is flanked by 2-light mullioned windows. At left on the ground floor 2 blocked segmental-arched openings, originally to a covered playground. Under the right-hand gable are 2 mullioned windows of 3 lights, to the left of a porch which projects slightly and has a moulded doorway with a hoodmould and depressed 2-centred arch. In front of the school is a low wall of snecked rubble with ashlar copings and piers and cast-iron railings. It curves to follow the line of the road and terminates at its west end against a taller wall surrounding a chamfered pointed doorway with hoodmould. It has a stepped coping and above the arch is a shield carved with a crown and monogram. The school forms part of a complex of buildings associated with St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral, St Peter's Road (qv). (Billington RN & Brownbill J: St Peter's, Lancaster: A History: London: 1910-: 183).
Listing NGR: SD4818061482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383049
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Billington, R N, Brownbill, J, St Peters Lancaster A History, (1910), 183
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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