CHURCH OF ST PATRICK

54, PICKWICK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283821
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PATRICK
Statutory Address:: 54, PICKWICK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283821
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PATRICK
Statutory Address 1:: 54, PICKWICK
Statutory Address 2:: CHURCH OF ST PATRICK, PICKWICK

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:: 54, PICKWICK
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PATRICK, PICKWICK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corsham
National Grid Reference:: ST 85970 70489

Details

CORSHAM PICKWICK ST 87 SE (south side) 1/317 Church of Saint Patrick and No. 54 II

Schools, now Roman Catholic church and attached house, 1857-8 by H.E. and A.S. Goodridge of Bath. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings, Gothic style. School has plain tile roofs, coped gables and stepped buttresses at all angles. Complex 'Z'-plan with additional range in rear south-east angle and projecting gabled porch in angle between north gable and east wing. Principal north- south range with wings to north-east and south-west, all gables treated similarly with stepped sill course under plate traceried windows with stepped cusped heads to lights, 4-light to main north and east gables, 3-light to south and west, and cusped trefoil in apex. North and south gables have corner stacks, north gable has steep ashlar bellcote. Porch has segmental-pointed doorway, ribbon scroll over and statue niche in apex. North front of east wing has 3-light window reaching into dormer gable and small 2-light to left, both with cusped heads. West side has similar 3-light and dormer gable with 2-light to left, 3-light to right. South side has 2-light to left of main gable. To rear south-east is range with east end stack, 2 dormer gables with 2-light pointed windows breaking eaves, and door each side with ribbon scroll reading 'Girls School' to left, 'Boys School' to right. A projection between the doors with stepped gable has been extended (1985) to mask right-side door. Complex triple-purlin roofs within, inserted floor to main north-south range. House, to east, has stone tiled roof, 2-storey with cross-wing adjoining school and coped east gable. North front has ashlar canted porch in angle to school, gable with 2-light window to each floor, pointed heads above, shouldered below and part infilled in ashlar to line of stair. Large outside stack to left, dated 1858 with 3-light shouldered- head window in base. South side cross-wing has half-hipped gable, cusped 3-light upper window over off-centre triangular ashlar bay with 2-light mullion-and-transom window on each face. Wing to right has upper single-light breaking eaves. Lean-to on east end wall with 2-light window over. Originally Pickwick District Schools, built for Sir G. Goldney M.P. Design exhibited Royal Academy 1857.

Listing NGR: ST8597070489

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Legacy System number:: 315345
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.