St Mary's Shopping Centre East Building

ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE EAST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298199
Date first listed:
28-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Shopping Centre East Building
Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE EAST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298199
Date first listed:
28-Jan-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Shopping Centre East Building
Statutory Address 1:
ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE EAST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S SHOPPING CENTRE EAST BUILDING, ST MARY'S PLACE

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 92155 23177

Details

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW ST MARY'S PLACE 590-1/10/91 (South side) 28/01/87 St Mary's Shopping Centre east building (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY'S PLACE (South side) Former infant school at St Mary's C of E School and closing wall to school yard)

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Infants' school, now shop. c1857, converted 1990. By Sir Gilbert Scott. Brick with ashlar front and left return facade; tile roof with fishscale bands. EXTERIOR: Gable facing, front to right. Single storey; 4-window range. Coped gables. Entrance in gabled porch to right end with pointed arch dying into stop-chamfered jambs, similar return arches and inner entrance; trefoil to gable. Windows of 3 trefoil-headed single-chamfered lights, that to centre is tall with stepped triplet of lights, pointed relieving arch and gable with trefoil and iron cross, now with inserted door. Left return has window as to centre of front with trefoil above. Late C20 glazed canopy on enriched cast-iron piers. The building forms a courtyard group with former St Mary's Church of England School and master's house, (qv). Closing wall extending to former master's house to west has been demolished. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (extract from Vol VI): London: 1979-1982: 261).

Listing NGR: SJ9215523177

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Legacy System number:
384042
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 261

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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.

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