Priory of St Luke and St Teresa
PRIORY OF ST LUKE AND ST TERESA, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390619
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Priory of St Luke and St Teresa
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY OF ST LUKE AND ST TERESA, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390619
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Priory of St Luke and St Teresa
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY OF ST LUKE AND ST TERESA, SOUTH STREET
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:
- PRIORY OF ST LUKE AND ST TERESA, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7138528563
Details
489/0/10012
WINCANTON
SOUTH STREET
Priory of St Luke and St Teresa
15-AUG-02
GV II
Carmelite priory. 1888-9; by Canon A.J.C. Scoles. Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Clay Bridgwater tile roof with coped gable ends. Ashlar stacks.
PLAN: U-shaped on plan; entered via a cloister from the church to stairs in the left [west] wing; the right-hand [east] wing contains the refectory on the ground floor and the library above on the first floor; in central range an axial corridor at rear and cells at front.
Jacobean style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. 1:3:2 bay south front, end bays in projecting gabled wings; stone mullion-transom windows, the ground floor with hoodmoulds continued as stringcourse, second floor with stringcourse at cill level and with hoodmoulds; right-hand gable has statue niche; smaller left gable has lancet ventilator; asymmetrical fenestration of stone windows on north and south sides; rear wall blind.
INTERIOR: Stairs in left [west] wing with stick balusters and square pointed newels. Axial corridor at back of central range with depressed 2-centred arch recesses and cells in front; right [east] wing has refectory on ground floor and library above on first floor, complete with bookcases.
The Priory, together with the Roman Catholic Church of St Luke and St Teresa, is a good example of a complete late C19 monastic complex.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490792
- 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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