School, Chapel Of St Peter And St Paul And House About 80 Metres South Of The Monastery Buildings Of The Benedictine Abbey Of St Michael And All Angels

EXTERIOR: the west front of the teachers' house has three-storeys to the right and two to the left. The right hand portion is of three-bays with an arched door set beneath a gabled porch which has low stone walls to the sides supporting a timber superstructure. At either side are mullioned and transomed windows of two-lights and there are two-light casements to the first and second floors with a single light above the porch. The left hand part of the front has a single-bay with mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor as before. Above this bay is a two-light dormer window with decorated timber bargeboards and there is a similar window to the second floor at right. The gabled south reveal has a square projecting bay with hipped stone roof at ground floor level, with mullions and transom. Above this is a three-light casement, and there is a single light casement to the gable, which has kneelers and a coping with an iron finial to the top. At right the schoolroom has four-bays of windows, divided by buttresses with offsets. Each window is of three-lights with foiled heads. At the juncture between the schoolroom and house there is a large stack with five flues. To the right, the flank of the sanctuary is recessed, and there is a small sacristy with catsilde roof. The eastern end has a traceried window lighting the sanctuary with two cusped lights and a quatrefoil to the apex. The gable has kneelers and a coping and appears to have formerly had an iron finial which is now partially missing. Above and behind this, the gable end of the schoolroom supports a stone sanctus bellcote with arched opening and gabled top, which has lost its bell.

The north flank has a similar schoolroom window at left to those seen on the south front and a boiler chimney with offsets and an octagonal cap. The right hand side of this front has now been masked by a flat-roofed extension which appears to have been added in the C20. The gable end of the convent house at right has a stack with octagonal brick flues.

INTERIOR: the boarded schoolroom roof has scissor-beam trusses which rise from stone corbels and two ranks of purlins with a ridge beam. The sanctuary area has been converted to be a part of the meeting hall, but the lateral walls have recessed panels which appear to have been intended to house the chancel doors, which would have been closed during the week when the larger space served as a school and opened at the weekend to allow for religious services. There is a low door with arched head to the right of the sanctuary arch which leads to the sacristy. The convent house has a staircase with chamfered balusters and newels with domed square caps. There are fitted cupboards to two rooms and chamfered fire surrounds.