Mount St Josephs College of the Blessed Virgin
MOUNT ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, HEADINGLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255946
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Mount St Josephs College of the Blessed Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, HEADINGLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255946
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Mount St Josephs College of the Blessed Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, HEADINGLEY LANE
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:
- MOUNT ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, HEADINGLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28389 35968
Details
LEEDS
SE2835NW HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley 714-1/64/787 (North East side) 05/08/76 Mount St Joseph's College of the Blessed Virgin
GV II
Wesleyan college, now Roman Catholic College and Leeds Diocesan RE centre. 1867-68 with later C19 extensions. By Wilson and Wilcox of Bath. Rock-faced coursed stone (Potternewton stone) with ashlar dressings from the Meanwood quarries; slate roofs. Large and low, 2 storeys, 7 bays, courtyard plan. Gothic Revival style. Recased stone steps to central gabled porch: double doors, plate tracery overlight, moulded Gothic arch; 3-stage clock tower above with 3-light traceried window, arcaded clock stage, conical stone dome on short columns, bud finial. 3-window flanking bays: 3-light traceried windows to ground floor, 1st-floor windows are gabled through eaves dormers with quatrefoil lights in the tympana, the central window surmounted by a double flue chimney; pierced parapets, end stacks. Outer projecting 3-window bays in similar style but with twin pyramid roofs with small gabled dormer windows and elaborate wrought-iron finials. Possibly later gabled bay far left with plain surrounds to windows; a 4-window single-storey bay far right with traceried 2-light windows, pilasters between. Rear: walling of coursed squared ashlar, large grey slates to roofs; central chapel with 3-light E window and 2-light cross windows to side walls, 2-storey ranges with shouldered arches to ground-floor windows. INTERIOR: not examined; plan as described in the 1872 Directory comprised: entrance hall under tower, library right, board room left, main corridor running along rear, 8 students' day-rooms off; left wing: 4 lecture rooms, one with an open timber roof and a chemistry laboratory with lecture room. Right wing: dining hall with open timbered roof, kitchen at right-angles, governor's and housekeeper's apartments. Sick and convalescent wards and students' rooms on 1st floor. Contractor Mr Whiteley of Leeds, Governor the Revd John Farrar. Built as a training college for the Wesleyan church, the 1889 OS map shows rear wings, the E wing L-shaped to form a small courtyard on the E side. The rear wings extended, chapel and flanking ranges built to form an enclosed rear courtyard late C19-early C20. In 1924-1930 it was leased by Leeds University as a hall of residence and renamed Devonshire
Hall, that name transferred to the existing hall of residence on Cumberland Road (qv). (Porter's Leeds Directory: 1872-: XVIII; Gosden, PHJH & Taylor, AJ: Studies in the History of a University: Leeds: 1974-: 59).
Listing NGR: SE2838935968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gosden, P H, Taylor, A J, Studies in the History of a University 1874-1974, (1974), 59
Porters Directory in Leeds, (1872), 18
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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