Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary

Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AJ

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A church presbytery of 1848-50 by JJ Scoles. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245911
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1976
List Entry Name:: Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:: Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245911
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:: Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AJ

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:: Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AJ

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TG 52869 07629

Details

TG5207NE 839-1/13/152

GREAT YARMOUTH REGENT ROAD (S) Presbytery adjoining west of Church of St Mary

09-DEC-1976

II

A church presbytery of 1848-50 by JJ Scoles.

MATERIALS The presbytery is constructed of knapped Quaternary and Quarry flint with Lincolnshire Limestone dressings under slate roofs.

PLAN Rectangular in plan, of three storeys.

EXTERIOR The slightly asymmetrical façade has a projecting bay to the right and a ground floor bay window with parapet to the left. Two projecting gablets on the second floor to the north were added later. All windows are casements with stone surrounds and moulded mullions and are of two or three lights with cusped ogee heads. The rear elevation has a projecting stair turret and added dormer. To the east, a single storey link of knapped flint joins the presbytery with the Church of St Mary to the west.

INTERIOR A very plain interior with a simple staircase and few historic fixtures and fittings remaining

HISTORY In 1824, before the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, the Jesuits started a mission in Great Yarmouth under Father Tate. Tate had purchased a house and warehouse in the old town for Catholic worship, but by 1841 the congregation had outgrown this accommodation and the new priest, Father Lopez, purchased land outside of the town on which the Jesuits would build St Mary's. Built at a cost of £10,000, the Jesuits under the patronage of Father Lythgoe commissioned one of their favoured architects, Joseph John Scoles (1798-1863), to design and build the church and adjoining presbytery. Scoles had married into a Great Yarmouth family and designed a number of buildings in the town including St Peter's Anglican Church (later St Spiridion's Greek Orthodox Church) and Britannia Terrace, Marine Parade, both listed at Grade II.

A third storey with gablets was added to the presbytery in the late C19 or early C20. Other extensions have been added to the rear. The interior has been remodelled on the ground floor and many of the historic fixtures and fittings removed.

SOURCES Martin, Christopher 'A Glimpse of heaven, Catholic Churches of England and Wales' English Heritage, rev.2009. Pevsner, N and Wilson, B 'The Buildings of England: Norfolk 1 Norwich and the North-East' 2nd Ed 1997 pp 488-529 www.pastscape.org.uk, accessed 21st August 2009.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The presbytery attached to St Mary's Church, Regent Road, Great Yarmouth is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architecture: It has aesthetic merit in its design by the noted architect JJ Scoles, is of good craftsmanship and constructed with quality materials. * Group Value: It has considerable group value with the attached contemporary Church of St Mary to the west, also by Scoles.

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Sources

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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 12 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.