Former All Souls School

BOLTON

SD71SW ASTLEY STREET 797-1/2/12 (South side) 26/04/74 Former All Soul's School (Formerly Listed as: ASTLEY STREET (South side) School to east of Church of All Souls)

GV II

Church school, now community centre. c1880. Probably by Paley and Austin, the architects of the adjoining Church of All Souls (qv). Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: the building comprises 2 blocks at right angles to each other, with entrance porch in their angle. Left hand range (parallel to street) is single storey with 4 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with plain tracery, linked by a continuous hoodmould. Moulded stone parapet. Gabled entrance porch with moulded stone doorway with geometrical traceried overlight and asymmetrical hoodmould. Range at right angles to street is 2 storey, with paired traceried mullioned and transomed window on each floor in gable, with billet moulding to transom of first-floor window. Coped gable with finial. 5-window range return with 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, arched to ground floor, flat headed to first floor, both with drop-ended hoodmoulds. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD7142510892