Former All Souls School is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1974. Community centre.
Former All Souls School
- WRENN ID
- proud-lintel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1974
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- Former All Souls School, Astley Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 714 108
- Coordinates
- 53.59384, -2.4332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former All Souls School, built around 1880, is a church school that now serves as a community centre. It was likely designed by the architects Paley and Austin, who also designed the nearby Church of All Souls. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof.
The structure consists of two blocks that meet at right angles, with an entrance porch located at their junction. The left block, which runs parallel to the street, is a single storey and features four 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with plain tracery, all connected by a continuous hoodmould. It has a moulded stone parapet. The gabled entrance porch includes a moulded stone doorway with a geometrical traceried overlight and an asymmetrical hoodmould.
The block that is perpendicular to the street is two storeys high, showcasing paired traceried mullioned and transomed windows on each floor within the gable. The first-floor window has a transom adorned with billet moulding. The gable is coped and topped with a finial. The return side has a five-window range with two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows; the ground floor windows are arched while the first-floor windows are flat-headed, both featuring drop-ended hoodmoulds. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former All Souls School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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