Convent of Our Lady of Mercy
CONVENT OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, COLLEGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247442
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Convent of Our Lady of Mercy
- Statutory Address:
- CONVENT OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, COLLEGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247442
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Convent of Our Lady of Mercy
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONVENT OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, COLLEGE STREET
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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:
- CONVENT OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, COLLEGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56623 40030
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5640SE COLLEGE STREET 646-1/13/161 (North East side) 12/07/72 Convent of Our Lady of Mercy
GV II
Convent, now partly an old people's home. 1845-48 and 1857. By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, with later C19 additions. Altered late C20 by Bartlett Gray of West Bridgford. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, with plain gable and ridge stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, coped gables. Plinth, first floor band, coped gables. Windows are mainly glazing bar casements with stone mullions and surrounds. 2 and 3 storeys plus attics; 9 x 6 windows. 4 ranges enclosing a quadrangle and cloister. East front has 8 cross casements to ground floor, with a single light window and pointed arched door to right. Above, 8 similar windows, and above again, 6 smaller transomed windows flanked by single cross casements. Attics have 6 gabled dormers. To right, the projecting east gable of the chapel, with 3 stepped buttresses. 2 segmental pointed windows, 3-lights, and in the left return, a similar window. Above, a 5-light pointed arched window with Decorated tracery. South side has a Decorated window, 2-lights, and north side has 4 similar windows. The remaining outer sides of the quadrangle have minimal openings and features. Inside the quadrangle: south side, 2 storeys, has 5 chamfered pointed arches forming a cloister, the east arch with a late C20 glazed screen and door. Above, 6 traceried flat-headed windows, 3-lights. West side has 6 mullioned windows, 3 lights, enlarged late C20. Above, 6 lancets with transoms. Attics have 6 gabled dormers. North and east sides have lean-to corridors, 2 storeys, with 3-light mullioned windows to the ground floor and 3-light pointed arched windows above. North side has dormers. At the north-east corner, a square stair tower, 3 storeys, with mullioned windows and pyramidal roof. Above and behind, a square bell turret with 2-light openings and pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: chapel, single unit, rendered, with stencilled decoration. Redecorated and reseated 1990-91. Scissor braced roof with painted framed panels to 3 eastern bays. Traceried panelled dado and stencilled frieze. East end has a blind arcaded ashlar reredos with a large figure and bracket each side, and C19 stained glass window. Side windows have stained glass. West end has 2 pointed arched doors and a pointed arched opening above, with organ gallery. South-west door has moulded opening and stoups each side. Fittings include original marble and alabaster altar with relief panel, by Hardman. First floor cloister, to south, has panelled wagon roof and 6 ogee-headed niches. Corridors have chamfered pointed arches and roll-moulded doorways. Stone winder stair with iron framing. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 242).
Listing NGR: SK5662340030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456505
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 242
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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