Stonyhurst College, Old Infirmary and attached passage

Roman Catholic boarding school comprising Jesuit community accommodation areas, collection display rooms and archive stores, and offices.

FORMER INFIRMARY,1842-3, attributed to J.J.Scoles.

MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar or coursed dressed stone, with deep moulded plinths, string courses, hoodmoulds, cornices and copings; pitched roofs of Welsh slate. Jacobean Revival style.

PLAN: Infirmary located at north-west corner of the WEST FRONT, connected by covered dog-leg passage.

EXTERIOR: 1842-3. Built on site of demolished outbuilding, it balances St Peter’s Church in composition of West Front. Ashlar, gabled Welsh slate roof with ashlar ridge stacks, cast iron rainwater goods. 2 storeys over basement with attics, 5-bay symmetrical south front. C17 domestic revival style. Central doorway flanked by cross windows with sashes, moulded plinth, string course to first floor mullioned windows, all windows have hoodmoulds. Plain parapet to roof with coped verges and pinnacle finials. Gabled west front has with two large semi-elliptical arched openings to basement, mullioned windows to upper floors. Rear is plainer. A single-storey dog-leg covered passage, c1843, connects the former Infirmary to north-west corner of West Front. 5-bay south elevation, 3-light mullioned windows, buttresses, moulded parapet to Welsh slate hipped roof. On the north side is a single-storey lavatory block, known as Jumps (named after renovation funded by Ralph Lyon Jump OS, mid C20), c1870, with Welsh slate hipped roof with lantern, behind a parapet.

INTERIORS: C19 marble chimneypieces to some rooms in the former Infirmary. Marble floor to the lavatory block.