Former St Patrick's School
FORMER ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL, ROYAL EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250250
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Patrick's School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL, ROYAL EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250250
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Patrick's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL, ROYAL EAST STREET
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:
- FORMER ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL, ROYAL EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 58824 05072
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
LEICESTER ROYAL EAST STREET SK 5905 5/10043 Former St Patrick's School II Former school and chapel. 1854. By JA Hansom for the Dominican Order of Holy Cross Priory. Red brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. 2 storeys. 6-window range of stone mullion windows, including triple-lancets to projecting gables on centre left and far right. On ground floor 7 stone mullion and transom windows and in the right gable a doorway with double doors, and hood-mould with end stops. Small window to right and niche over. Plinth and stone-coped gables with kneelers. INTERIOR. Ground floor has large room with boxed beams supported on stone corbels. First floor was also originally used for worship and retains a very fine scissor-braced roof. This school was built as a combined school and chapel and used as such until a separate church was built in 1867. (Catholic Directory, 1855, p214; H.Kimberlin, The Return of Catholicism to Leicester).
Listing NGR: SK5882405072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Catholic Directory, (1855), 214
Kimberlin, H, The Return of Catholicism to Leicester, ()
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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