St Johns College of Further Education
ST JOHNS COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, GREAT JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282969
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Johns College of Further Education
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOHNS COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, GREAT JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282969
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Johns College of Further Education
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOHNS COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, GREAT JOHN 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:
- ST JOHNS COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, GREAT JOHN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83222 97995
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8397NW GREAT JOHN STREET 698-1/30/154 (North side) St John's College of Further Education
GV II
School, now college of further education. Late C19, altered. Stock brick with dressings of red brick and sandstone (flat roof concealed). Roughly T-shaped plan, formed by main block parallel to street and large rear wing of almost full width. Eclectic style with some C17 Renaissance features. Three storeys and 5 bays (2 windows per bay), symmetrical, the centre bay slightly projected, with red brick pilasters (banded at top floor), moulded brick cornice interrupted in the centre, high parapet with banded piers and iron railings, interrupted in the centre by a rectangular upstand which has a blind keyed oculus under an open pediment. Pairs of tall casement cross-windows with small panes in the top lights, square-headed at ground floor, segmental-headed at 1st floor, and square-headed with segmental relieving arches at 2nd floor. Some of the piers of the parapet are chimneys. Flat roof which formerly served as school playground. Entrances at the sides of the rear. Sides and rear have less regular fenestration, including a gabled re-entrant in the centre of the rear wall which has large tripartite windows, that at top floor with a tympanum over the centre light. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8322297995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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