Holy Rosary Convent, Mayfield Drive
HOLY ROSARY CONVENT, MAYFIELD DRIVE, DURLEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297152
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Rosary Convent, Mayfield Drive
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY ROSARY CONVENT, MAYFIELD DRIVE, DURLEIGH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2007-04-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/16258/26
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297152
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Rosary Convent, Mayfield Drive
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY ROSARY CONVENT, MAYFIELD DRIVE, DURLEIGH 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:
- HOLY ROSARY CONVENT, MAYFIELD DRIVE, DURLEIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 27870 36608
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST23NE DURLEIGH ROAD 736-1/7/63 (North side) 16/12/74 Holy Rosary Convent, Mayfield Drive (Formerly Listed as: ENMORE ROAD (North side) Holy Rosary Convent)
II
House, later a school. c1850-1870 with C20 rear wing. Red Wembdon rubblestone, stone dressings, plain tile roof and cream brick diagonal shafts and moulded cornices to the stacks. Complex L-shaped plan. Eclectic High Victorian Gothic style. 2 storeys with attics; 3-window range. Plain stone dressings with pointed arches to each light. Moulded kneelers to copings of Dutch gables. The range to right is stepped forward under a large Dutch gable with a single-light attic window; a 3-light stone-mullioned window to the first floor is above a single-storey rectangular bay with modillion cornice to a hipped lead roof; the boarded-up window is mullioned and transomed. To the left a chateau-like tall hipped roof crowned by an wrought-iron ornamental cage, has gablets to each side. A Dutch gable to this side has a 3-light attic window, a single-light window to left and a 2-light window to right of the first floor over a pointed-arched Gothic-style doorcase with engaged colonettes and scroll caps and double 3-panel doors. To the far left is a boarded-up full-height window or door. The right return, facing the garden to the south, has 3 Dutch gables with finials, the central bay is stepped forward, its single-storey canted bay has a hipped tiled roof and 2-light stone mullioned windows, the bay is flanked by 4-light stone-mullioned casements windows with moulded cornices. The range to the right has a hipped tiled roof to a rectangular single-storey bay. The range to the left stepped slightly forward with 4-light casement windows all boarded up. A C20 rear block to the right. The left return progresses in 3 steps; the entrance block to right has a single-light window to first floor and 2-light windows to first and ground floors. INTERIOR: 4-panel doors, high skirting boards and thick reeded cornices to very high ceilings; polychromatic floor tiles to entrance lobby, hall and service area, both of which have pointed arches leading to the central hall. To left is a stone screen of 3 pointed arches with pierced foliate spandrels and various capitals to marble columns; the arches to the sides have a low wall with pierced quatrefoils; the central arch leads to an Imperial staircase with open strings, turned balusters, fretted ends, swept and wreathed rails and curtail step. The large stair window is 4-light with ovolo moulding to mullions and transom. Windows to main rooms are similar, with panelled soffits and splayed openings. The rear service area has a closed-string staircase with stick balusters and turned newel.
Listing NGR: ST2787036608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373872
- 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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