St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1951. School. 2 related planning applications.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School
- WRENN ID
- late-facade-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1951
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School, School Lane, PR25 2TU
- OS grid reference
- SD 539 225
- Coordinates
- 53.69751, -2.69863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School is a building dating from 1784, originally established as a charity school and later altered and enlarged to become a National School in 1816. It is constructed of stone with a stone slate roof, featuring one chimney on the ridge and another at the left gable. The school has an L-shaped plan with five bays and includes an attached master's house at the right end.
The building is two storeys high and has stone quoins, as well as bands at the sill level and the first floor. The original front entrance, located in the center of the south side, has been altered to a window, but a rectangular stone tablet above it remains, inscribed with: "In the Year of our Lord 1784 This Charity School was founded endowed and erected by Richard Balshaw Gentleman For Instructing the Children of the Poor only of this Parish, In Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in the English Tongue, And in the principles of the Church of England As by Law Established The Girls to be taught also to Knit Sew and Mark."
To the left of the entrance, there is a three-light window that extends the full height of the building, with a Venetian form at the first floor level, which is matched by all the other windows: one on each floor to the left and two on each floor to the right. The master's house to the right features a projecting gabled center bay, designed in a compatible style and using similar materials. At the rear of the original school, there is a single storey extension that includes two Venetian windows and a slate roof.
Local climate
St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Radon risk assessment
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