Cathedral School Including Attached Wall, Rilings And Doorway

LANCASTER

SD4861 BALMORAL ROAD 1685-1/5/13 (North side) Cathedral School, including attached wall, railings and doorway

GV II

Roman Catholic school. 1897. Designed by Paley and Austin. Gothic Revival style. Snecked sandstone rubble, and slate roofs with coped gables. Built on sloping ground with 4 gables facing the road. The right-hand (uphill) pair of gables originally belonged to the School Room, wider and taller and with 3 windows, and to the Classroom block, with 2 windows. Each window has 2 trefoiled lights with a transom, with a quatrefoil or cinquefoil in the head under the chamfered pointed outer arch. To left 2 further gables project forwards slightly and are of a full 2 storeys. Each has a similar 2-light window, in a pointed outer arch, with transom at the centre of the 1st floor, plus each is flanked by 2-light mullioned windows. At left on the ground floor 2 blocked segmental-arched openings, originally to a covered playground. Under the right-hand gable are 2 mullioned windows of 3 lights, to the left of a porch which projects slightly and has a moulded doorway with a hoodmould and depressed 2-centred arch. In front of the school is a low wall of snecked rubble with ashlar copings and piers and cast-iron railings. It curves to follow the line of the road and terminates at its west end against a taller wall surrounding a chamfered pointed doorway with hoodmould. It has a stepped coping and above the arch is a shield carved with a crown and monogram. The school forms part of a complex of buildings associated with St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral, St Peter's Road (qv). (Billington RN & Brownbill J: St Peter's, Lancaster: A History: London: 1910-: 183).

Listing NGR: SD4818061482