St Mary's Training College Administration Block and Chapel

ST MARY'S TRAINING COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AND CHAPEL, FENHAM HALL DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1320395
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Training College Administration Block and Chapel
Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S TRAINING COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AND CHAPEL, FENHAM HALL DRIVE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1320395
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Training College Administration Block and Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
ST MARY'S TRAINING COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AND CHAPEL, FENHAM HALL DRIVE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S TRAINING COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AND CHAPEL, FENHAM HALL DRIVE

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

District:
Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 22110 65418

Details

NZ 26 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE FENHAM HAIL DRIVE (south side) 8/237 17/12/71 St. Mary's Training College administration block and chapel. G.V. II* House. Fenham Hall, 1748 by D. Garrett, with south tympanum carved by James Guthrie, for John Ord, mayor of Newcastle. North front and wings early C19 by Newton; east front mid C19. Became R.C. Convent school and college in 1905. Sandstone ashlar. North front Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and quoins. Graduated Lakeland slate roofs. E-plan. 2 storeys. Original garden front: 9 bays with 13-bay pedimented projecting centre, set-back outer bays. Plinth band. Arcaded ground floor centre has central niche. All windows altered in original architraves, those on ground floor outer bays with pulvinated friezes and pediments. Top cornice and parapet. Ord arms in pediment. Entrance front 11 bays: end bays project deeply with quoins; 3 central bays project with giant Tuscan engaged columns and pediment. Central door, up 5 steps, and sashes with glazing bars, all in architraves; ground floor cornices. 9-bay east front, in French C18 style, has central door under open segmental pediment. Interior: 1908 chapel has Ionic Order to chancel and reredos arches; entablature; panelled, low barrel-vaulted ceiling. Original interior destroyed by fire in 1908. About to become empty at time of survey. Sources: E. Mackenzie View of the County of Northumberland Newcastle 1825 p.410; Society of the Sacred Heart St. Mary's College Fenham 1905-1985 n.d.

Listing NGR: NZ2211065418

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Sources

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Mackenzie, E, View of the County of Northumberland, (1825), 410
St Mary's College Fenham 1905-1985, ()

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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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