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. 1 related planning application.
St Mary'S Roman Catholic Junior School
- WRENN ID
- late-facade-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1951
- Type
- School
- 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.
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