St Mary'S Redemptorist Monastery

CLAPHAM PARK ROAD SW4 1. (south-west side) 5023 St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery TQ 2975 16/235 8.2.79

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1. Late C19 by Bentley in Art and Craft Gothic style. L-shaped building with shorter arm linked to Church of St Mary, longer arm along south side of courtyard and fronting on to St Alphonsus Road with a western extension. Courtyard front of 3 storeys in red brick with stone dressings. High pitched slated roof with hipped, gabled dormers. At south corner a battered bell turret with low cupola. Second floor elliptical arcading divided by lesenes on corbels. First floor windows in pointed arches with feet. Paired ground floor windows with flattened ogee heads under pointed relieving arches with bands of brick and stone in tympana. Large 4-centred entrance arch with stone hoodmould. Similar design to short arm but with first and second floors reversed and ground floor recessed behind Tudor arched cloister. Slightly concave outer front varied and irregular. Eastern section of 5 narrow bays with broad dividing upper buttresses and corbelled arcading below eaves; then higher 4 and 3 bay sections; and a western 2-storey 2-bay end. Fenestration varied though using similar designs to courtyard front. Two large windows in third section suggest a chapel.

Listing NGR: TQ2948875230