St Marys Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1981. School.
St Marys Junior School
- WRENN ID
- noble-lancet-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Marys Junior School, Chichester Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 833 960
- Coordinates
- 53.46084, -2.25181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Junior School, now a Social Services centre, was built between 1855 and 1860. It features red brick with blue brick bands and sandstone dressings, topped by a steeply-pitched fishscale slate roof. The building has a hall and a crosswing plan, with a one-storey hall and a two-storey wing at the south end, both at the same height.
The hall includes buttresses with offsets and two tall gabled 6-light transomed windows that break the eaves. These windows have cusped lights and 2-centred arched relieving arches with arch-bands of blue brick. A gabled porch is located at the angle with the wing, featuring a 2-centred arched doorway with a chamfered surround, hoodmould, and double doors with strap hinges. There is also a 20th-century flat-roofed addition to the left of the porch.
The gable of the wing has two windows with two cusped lights each at the ground floor, and a large 2-centred arched 3-light window at the first floor with circular tracery in the head. The north gable wall of the hall is dominated by a very large 2-centred arched transomed 14-light window with plate tracery. The rear of the building is similar to the front but features a projecting gabled porch now surrounded by 20th-century additions that enclose the rear of the wing.
The school forms a group with the Church of St Mary on Upper Moss Lane, St Mary's Rectory on Parsonage Street, and the Moss Side People's Centre on St Mary's Street.
Local climate
St Marys Junior School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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