St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School
ST MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC JUNIOR SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361864
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC JUNIOR SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361864
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC JUNIOR SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- ST MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC JUNIOR SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 53970 22566
Details
SD 52SW LEYLAND SCHOOL LANE
8/43 St. Mary's RC Junior School 26.7.1951 (formerly listed as No.90(Golden Hill Schools)) - II
Charity School 1784, altered and enlarged as National School 1816. Stone, stone slate roof with one chimney on the ridge, another at left gable. L-shaped plan of 5 bays with attached master's house at right end. Two storeys; stone quoins, bands at sill level and at 1st floor. Original front entrance in centre of south side now altered as a window, with a rectangular stone tablet above, lettered: In the Year of our Lord 1784 This Charity School was founded endowed and erected by Richard Balshaw Gentleman For Instructing the Children of the Poor only of this Parish, In Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in the English Tongue, And in the principles of the Church of England As by Law Established The Girls to be taught also to Knit Sew and Mark. Left of this a 3-light window rises the full height and has at lst floor level a Venetian form matched by all the other windows: one on each floor to the left, 2 on each floor to the right. To the right, the master's house with projecting gabled centre bay in compatible style and materials; and at the rear of the original school a single storey extension with 2 venetian windows and slate roof.
Listing NGR: SD5397022566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357949
- 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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