SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT

SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT, MOAT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1248986
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT
Statutory Address:: SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT, MOAT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1248986
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT
Statutory Address 1:: SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT, MOAT ROAD

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

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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:: SAINT MARGARETS CONVENT, MOAT ROAD

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:: East Grinstead
National Grid Reference:: TQ 39199 38960

Details

1. 1068 MOAT ROAD St Margaret's Convent TQ 3938 2/54

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2. Range of buildings substantially the work of G E Street, commenced in 1865, but with some later alterations, especially by A E Street. Main assembly forms a quadrangle withcloister and chapel to the north side. Mainly 2 storeys, ashlar stone in Gothic style, mullioned windows, asymmetrical gabled and dormered elevations, red tiled roof. Cloister in distinctive Early English style, recently glazed in. Chapel 1879-1885. Street considered this to be one of his finest works, and the proportions are indeed good. In plan aisless nave, chancel and eastern Lady Chapel. High nave with long slender windows, 1-light windows in chancel, and a long even tiled roof. Slim and high tower with saddleback roof. Interior somewhat severe, but dignified. Remarkable for massive, detached, black Irish marble columns in chancel. Original reredos. Lady Chapel (retro chapel) vaulted in three by three bays in Early English styleo Small vaulted eastern apse with plain glazed lancets. The Guest House south east of the tower has a timber framed upper part. This is by A E Street 1889, but to his father's original plans.

Listing NGR: TQ3919938960

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Legacy System number:: 430832
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.