St Marys Junior School

SJ 89 NW, 698-1/4/715

MANCHESTER, CHICHESTER ROAD, Hulme (East side),

St Mary's Junior School

23/04/81

GV

II

School, now Social Services centre. 1855-60. Red brick with blue brick bands and sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched fishscale slate roof. Hall and crosswing plan, with wing at south end. One-storey hall and 2-storey wing to same height. The hall has buttresses with offsets, and two tall gabled 6-light transomed windows breaking the eaves, with cusped lights and 2-centred arched relieving arches and arch-bands of blue brick; a gabled porch in the angle with the wing, with 2-centred arched doorway which has a chamfered surround, hoodmould, and double doors with strap hinges (and a C20 flat-roofed addition to the left of the porch). The gable of the wing has two windows each of two cusped lights at ground floor, and a large 2-centred arched 3-light window at first floor with circular tracery in the head. The north gable wall of the hall is almost completely filled by a very large 2-centred arched transomed 14-light window with plate tracery; the rear is similar to the front, but has a projecting gabled porch now surrounded by C20 additions which enclose the rear of the wing. Forms group with Church of St Mary UPPER MOSS LANE (q.v.), St Mary's Rectory, PARSONAGE STREET (q.v.), and Moss Side People's Centre, ST MARY'S STREET (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8337896038