St Walburga's Convent is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Convent.

St Walburga's Convent

WRENN ID
stranded-granite-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1995
Type
Convent
Address
St Walburga's Convent, St Peter's Road
OS grid reference
SD 481 614
Coordinates
54.04677, -2.79344
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Walburga's Convent is a Roman Catholic convent built between 1851 and 1853, designed by E.G. Paley in the Gothic Revival style. The building is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It has an L-shaped main structure with a cross-wing on the left and a rear corridor that connects to the Convent Chapel of St Peter's Cathedral on St Peter's Road.

The convent is two storeys high, with windows that all have chamfered mullions. The heads of the window lights are either trefoiled or have shouldered arches. The main range consists of three bays, featuring a single-storey canted bay window in the central bay and a four-light window to the right. The upper windows are through-eaves coped gabled dormers with configurations of two, three, and two lights. A moulded pointed doorway is located in the left-hand bay, and there is a single-light squint window at the angle with the cross-wing. The right-hand gable has chimneys and is coped with kneelers, positioned between the second and third bays.

The gable wall of the cross-wing includes a string course above two windows of two lights and a stepped three-light window beneath the coped gable. The left-hand return wall of the cross-wing has three bays, which include a single-storey canted bay window and dormers that light an attic storey.

Local climate

St Walburga's Convent sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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