PRESBYTERY ADJOINING ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST

73 Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AR

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Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, 1895, designed by Father (later Canon) AJC Scoles. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386819
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: PRESBYTERY ADJOINING ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
Statutory Address:: 73 Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386819
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1999
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Nov-2016
List Entry Name:: PRESBYTERY ADJOINING ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST
Statutory Address 1:: 73 Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AR

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 73 Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AR

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Yeovil
National Grid Reference:: ST5570816324

Summary

Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, 1895, designed by Father (later Canon) AJC Scoles.

Reasons for Designation

The presbytery to the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, built in 1895, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: it has a notable and well-detailed exterior that appears largely unaltered and complements the styling of the Church of the Holy Ghost; * Group value: it forms a contemporary group with the church, also listed at Grade II, with which it shares a strong visual, physical and historic relationship.

History

During the last decades of the C19, Mass was held in a chantry chapel which was rented by the Catholic community. In 1891 Father (later Canon) Alexander Scoles became the first resident priest at Yeovil and subsequently purchased land for a Roman Catholic church and a presbytery. Scoles was noted as an architect and planner, and he designed both buildings. The presbytery and sacristy were built first, completed in 1895, and the sacristy served as a temporary chapel until the church (Grade II-listed) was completed in 1899.

Details

Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, 1895, designed by Father (later Canon) AJC Scoles.

MATERIALS: constructed of red brick with Hamstone dressings under a red clay double-Roman tiled roof with stone-coped gable ends and brick axial and gable-end stacks.

PLAN: it is rectangular on plan with a projecting central bay.

EXTERIOR: the house which is built in the Gothic style, faces S onto Higher Kingston and has two storeys and an attic. The front elevation is of three bays with a continuous cill stringcourse. The central gabled bay breaks forwards and has a large five-light stone mullioned and transomed ground-floor window with cusped lights and hoodmould. To the first floor are two two-light Gothic windows with plate tracery and two-centred arches with hoodmoulds, and a cusped lancet in the gable above. The return walls of the central bay each has a flat-headed, transomed single window at first floor. The flanking bays are set back. The right-hand one has a pointed-arched entrance with recessed doorway with marginal lights and a flat-arched mullioned and transomed window of two lights under a continuous hoodmould to the ground floor and a matching first-floor window. The left-hand bay has a pair of French doors under a segmental head, and a two-light stone mullioned and transomed first-floor window. The rear (N) elevation is plainer and also has a central, projecting gabled bay. The windows are mostly four-pane, timber sashes, except for a dormer to the roof and a modern casement under a concrete lintel to the ground floor left.

INTERIOR: partially inspected (2015). Although relatively plain, some of the rooms have carved fireplaces, several displaying Canon Scoles’ initials and coat of arms, and stone corbels support the ceiling beams.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 474228
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
The A-Z of Yeovil’s History, The Church of the Holy Ghost, accessed 24 August 2016 from http://www.yeovilhistory.info/holyghost.htm
Other
The Holy Ghost, Yeovil. The Architectural History Practice Limited, 2015

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.