FORMER ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL

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:: FORMER ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL, ROYAL EAST STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 432530
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.