St Johns College Of Further Education

MANCHESTER

SJ8397NW GREAT JOHN STREET 698-1/30/154 (North side) St John's College of Further Education

GV II

School, now college of further education. Late C19, altered. Stock brick with dressings of red brick and sandstone (flat roof concealed). Roughly T-shaped plan, formed by main block parallel to street and large rear wing of almost full width. Eclectic style with some C17 Renaissance features. Three storeys and 5 bays (2 windows per bay), symmetrical, the centre bay slightly projected, with red brick pilasters (banded at top floor), moulded brick cornice interrupted in the centre, high parapet with banded piers and iron railings, interrupted in the centre by a rectangular upstand which has a blind keyed oculus under an open pediment. Pairs of tall casement cross-windows with small panes in the top lights, square-headed at ground floor, segmental-headed at 1st floor, and square-headed with segmental relieving arches at 2nd floor. Some of the piers of the parapet are chimneys. Flat roof which formerly served as school playground. Entrances at the sides of the rear. Sides and rear have less regular fenestration, including a gabled re-entrant in the centre of the rear wall which has large tripartite windows, that at top floor with a tympanum over the centre light. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8322297995