St Mary'S Shopping Centre East Building

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW ST MARY'S PLACE 590-1/10/91 (South side) 28/01/87 St Mary's Shopping Centre east building (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY'S PLACE (South side) Former infant school at St Mary's C of E School and closing wall to school yard)

GV II

Infants' school, now shop. c1857, converted 1990. By Sir Gilbert Scott. Brick with ashlar front and left return facade; tile roof with fishscale bands. EXTERIOR: Gable facing, front to right. Single storey; 4-window range. Coped gables. Entrance in gabled porch to right end with pointed arch dying into stop-chamfered jambs, similar return arches and inner entrance; trefoil to gable. Windows of 3 trefoil-headed single-chamfered lights, that to centre is tall with stepped triplet of lights, pointed relieving arch and gable with trefoil and iron cross, now with inserted door. Left return has window as to centre of front with trefoil above. Late C20 glazed canopy on enriched cast-iron piers. The building forms a courtyard group with former St Mary's Church of England School and master's house, (qv). Closing wall extending to former master's house to west has been demolished. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (extract from Vol VI): London: 1979-1982: 261).

Listing NGR: SJ9215523177