St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery

ST MARY'S REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, CLAPHAM PARK ROAD SW4

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1300154
Date first listed:
08-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery
Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, CLAPHAM PARK ROAD SW4
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1300154
Date first listed:
08-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery
Statutory Address 1:
ST MARY'S REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, CLAPHAM PARK ROAD SW4
Statutory Address 2:
ST MARY'S REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, ST ALPHONSUS ROAD SW4

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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

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 REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, CLAPHAM PARK ROAD SW4
Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, ST ALPHONSUS ROAD SW4

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Lambeth (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 29488 75230

Details

CLAPHAM PARK ROAD SW4 1. (south-west side) 5023 St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery TQ 2975 16/235 8.2.79

II*

2. Late C19 by Bentley in Art and Craft Gothic style. L-shaped building with shorter arm linked to Church of St Mary, longer arm along south side of courtyard and fronting on to St Alphonsus Road with a western extension. Courtyard front of 3 storeys in red brick with stone dressings. High pitched slated roof with hipped, gabled dormers. At south corner a battered bell turret with low cupola. Second floor elliptical arcading divided by lesenes on corbels. First floor windows in pointed arches with feet. Paired ground floor windows with flattened ogee heads under pointed relieving arches with bands of brick and stone in tympana. Large 4-centred entrance arch with stone hoodmould. Similar design to short arm but with first and second floors reversed and ground floor recessed behind Tudor arched cloister. Slightly concave outer front varied and irregular. Eastern section of 5 narrow bays with broad dividing upper buttresses and corbelled arcading below eaves; then higher 4 and 3 bay sections; and a western 2-storey 2-bay end. Fenestration varied though using similar designs to courtyard front. Two large windows in third section suggest a chapel.

Listing NGR: TQ2948875230

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
204141
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.

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