St Scholasticas Abbey
ST SCHOLASTICAS ABBEY, DAWLISH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269091
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- St Scholasticas Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- ST SCHOLASTICAS ABBEY, DAWLISH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269091
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- St Scholasticas Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST SCHOLASTICAS ABBEY, DAWLISH ROAD
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:
- ST SCHOLASTICAS ABBEY, DAWLISH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Teignmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9453074064
Details
TEIGNMOUTH
SX9474SW DAWLISH ROAD
25-1/3/121 (West side)
30/06/49 St Scholastica's Abbey
(Formerly Listed as:
DAWLISH ROAD
(West side)
No.99
St Scholastica's Abbey)
II
Former Benedictine nunnery, now in the course of being adapted
to apartments. 1862, by George Goldie. Limestone rubble, bands
of red sandstone, mostly cream freestone dressings, slate roof
with banded stone stacks to various slopes, ridges and gable
ends.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: Irregular, 46.6m wide at the front with a rear left wing
of 38.4m.
EXTERIOR: 2, 3 and 4 storeys; 10-window range to the 3-storey
south garden front which is the most elaborate and has a
full-width flight of steps rising from the garden. Sash
windows; shouldered arches to 2nd-floor windows at eaves
level, flat-arched windows to the 1st floor, those to the
south front in an arcade of 17 pointed arches with alternate
red and cream voussoirs; windows in alternate arches; similar
voussoirs to segmental-arched ground-floor 2-light windows.
The west front is similar but simple, the chapel projecting to
the right of the garden front has an octagonal tower with
gablets to alternate facets and belfry stage surmounted by
spire with lucarnes above the forward-facing gable, and
pointed-arched windows.
The rear service range, now called the Priest's House, is
lower, of 2 storeys including a semi-basement; it has 7
windows and a 1st-floor loading bay.
INTERIOR: the apartment to the right of the centre of the
garden front was formerly part of the cloisters. The large
shared entrance hall has a trefoil-headed niche to the left
and an open-well staircase with turned balusters and square
newels. The former cloister has panelled shutters and a
continuous arch-braced roof; a small chapel to the
ground-floor centre has an altar with cinquefoil niches, and a
confessional; the main chapel not inspected but noted as
having foliate carving to apsed sanctuary painted by Elphege
Pippet of Hardman's, redecorated 1962, reredos added 1932,
some original grisaille glass and altars by Hansom.
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HISTORICAL NOTE: St Scholastica's Benedictine nunnery was
founded in 1662 in Dunkirk, France. Driven out in 1793 by the
French revolution, it came first to Hammersmith and in 1863 to
Teignmouth.
Listing NGR: SX9453074064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461102
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 797
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1902)
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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