St Marys Presbytery

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TA2709NE HENEAGE ROAD 699-1/18/38 (East side) St Mary's Presbytery

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Presbytery. c1880, probably by Hadfield and Son of Sheffield, architects of the adjoining St Mary's church (qv); early C20 addition to rear. Red brick in stretcher bond with black brick and painted stone dressings. Welsh slate roof. Original range rectangular on plan, with later wing to rear adjoining St Mary's church. EXTERIOR: balanced asymmetrical design. 2 storeys with attic, irregular fenestration. Plinth with 2 black brick bands above. Entrance front to south has door and windows in a continuous quoined ashlar surround with chamfered reveals with label stops. Board door with rounded brackets to lintel and mullioned overlight with 2 quatrefoiled lights. Single-light window to left, and 3 similar lights to right, all with single transoms, quatrefoiled top lights, and leaded panes. 2 black brick bands at lintel level. Recessed carved stone panel above entrance with "SM" cypher on a shield below bishop's mitre. 3-light first-floor mullioned window in moulded reveal; narrow single-light window to right. Above this, a gable with brick bands and a small quatrefoiled attic window in a quoined surround. To the left, an elaborate projecting stack with a carved bishop's head corbel at ground-floor level, ribbed chimney-shafts and corbelled brick cap. Ovolo-moulded brick eaves cornice. Hipped and gabled roof with ornate wrought-iron finials. Left return forms front to Heneage Road: twin-gabled, the section to the right with a 3-light window to each floor and a quatrefoiled attic window, the section to the left with a full-height canted brick bay with 2-light and single-light windows, sill bands and hipped roof. North front facing church has lateral stack similar to south front but with a different head corbel; C20 replacement glazing to enclosed entrance passage. 2-storey rear addition has leaded casements, corbelled eaves, hipped roof, lateral stack with diagonal shafts. INTERIOR: not inspected. Along with the associated garden walls and St Mary's Church (qv), forms part of a notable group of Victorian and Edwardian educational and religious buildings built on land provided by the Heneage Estate.

Listing NGR: TA2785509633