St Michael'S College And Adjoining Cloister

St Michael's College and adjoining cloister is an ecclesiastical college built between 1856 and 1858 by Woodyer for the Reverend Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley. The building is constructed of coursed dressed rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a very steeply pitched slate roof, gable-end parapets with finials, and ashlar stacks. The main range extends roughly east-west for about 12 bays, with a parallel range to the northwest and a three-bay wing projecting at a right angle to the northeast, incorporating a square stair tower in the angle, and a hexagonal stair turret at the west end. Angle buttresses with offsets and buttresses dividing bays are present.

The building is primarily two storeys with an attic, displaying a Gothic style. The south elevation has irregular fenestration to reflect the interior layout. The dining hall occupies the first four bays from the left, featuring pointed mullioned and transomed windows with traceried heads and hoodmoulds with head stops on both main storeys. The music library, extending the three right-hand bays, projects slightly, topped with gabled windows whose cusped lancets break through the roof parapet. Additional prominent bays are articulated by buttresses with offsets. Other bays display two 3-light mullioned windows beneath four-centred relieving arches, a small first-floor oriel window, two 3-light windows, three lancets, a pointed doorway with a gabled hoodmould enclosing shields and a cross, and a square-headed doorway with a moulded surround and glazed double doors with an engraved transom light. The dormitory, running along the roofline, has seventeen gabled dormers each with steeply pitched roofs, cross-finials, moulded bargeboards, and narrow leaded lancets, alongside one flat-roofed dormer with a 4-light casement. The main entrance, at the east end, is a pointed doorway of two moulded orders.

The cloister, adjoining the northeast side, connects the college to the Church of St Michael and has a rubble wall on the east side and pointed, cusped timber openings set within a rubble base along the west side. A gabled pointed archway leads to the church, with a corresponding pointed access doorway in the rubble wall.

Interiors of note include the music library, with moulded timber fittings and a pointed stone fireplace, and the panelled dining hall, featuring an east gallery.