St Marys Convent School And Attached Wall With Railings And Gates

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TQ2685SE FITZJOHN'S AVENUE 798-1/38/438 (West side) No.47 St Mary's Convent School and attached wall with railings and gates

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House, now a school. 1880. By George Lethbridge for LM Casella with mid C20 attached chapel. Orange brick with all detailing, features and decoration in fine quality gauged and rubbed brickwork. Tiled hipped roof with cresting, dormers, tall slab end stacks, ogee domed belvedere with oculus to a small stair tower, and moulded brick boxed eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics. Irregular frontage of 4 bays. Central porch with arcaded openings in Elizabethan inspired style and carried out in gauged and rubbed brickwork; crowned by a terracotta balustrade. To the right, a double height bay and to left, a double height canted bay; both with panelled pilasters, keystones, floor cornice, swag and mask enriched aprons and crowned by balustrades to top floor windows. Sashes, with patterned glazing to top lights, in moulded architraves. Central 1st floor sashes with enriched pediments. INTERIOR: of good quality and little altered, includes panelling and tiled floors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick boundary wall in stepped sections with piers and panels, cast-iron railings and cast and wrought-iron gates. HISTORICAL NOTE: at nearly »10,000 this was an extremely expensive house to build and its quality is apparent in the fine brickwork. Casella was the inventor of the clinical thermometer; his family sold the house in 1927 to its present owners, St Mary's Convent School. Apart from the chapel, the C20 extensions by St Mary's Convent School are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ2654285092