St Mary'S Shopping Centre West Building

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW ST MARY'S PLACE 590-1/10/92 (South side) 28/01/87 St Mary's Shopping Centre west building (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY'S PLACE (South side) St Mary's Church of England School)

GV II

Former school and master's house, now shops. 1856, converted 1990. By Sir Gilbert Scott. Brick with ashlar facades; tile roof with fishscale bands. L-plan. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: single storey with 2-storey house to north; 3-window south range and 4-window west range with re-entrant gabled porch. Coped gables; windows of 2 or 3 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights. South range has entrance with segmental-pointed head to left of centre; 3 windows of 3 lights; C20 gabled dormer. Porch has pointed arch and return half arches leading to through passage; trefoil to gable. West range has 2 entrances with segmental-pointed heads; 2-light window to left end and 3 windows of 3 lights; former house has 3-light window to ground floor and 1st floor 2-light window; right return has gabled wing to right and lean-to re-entrant porch with segmental-pointed entrance to return; 2-light window to left; C20 raking dormer over porch and gable end as to front. C20 glazed canopies on enriched cast-iron piers. Rear of south range is brick, with short gabled wing. Rear of west range is of brick; ashlar 1st floor and lateral stack and gabled projection to former house; short gabled wing; longer wing to right end has hipped roof with belvedere. INTERIOR: arch-braced collar roof trusses. The building forms a courtyard group with the former St Mary's Church of England Infants' School, qv, to east, immediately to the south of the Church of St Mary, where Scott carried out one of the earliest of his many restorations. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (extract from Vol VI): London: 1979-1982: 261).

Listing NGR: SJ9214023148