Mayfield College

School, originally boys orphanage. Built 1865–6 by Edward Welby Pugin for the Duchess of Leeds with accommodation for about 100 boy orphans and placed under the Xavierian brothers in 1868. Gothic style. Built of red brick in Flemish bond with black polychrome, sandstone dressings and slate roof with brick chimney stacks. 4 storeys. 11 windows.

The principal south-east front comprises a central block of 7 bays and 2 projecting wings of 2 bays. The central block has a 3rd floor with paired cambered sashes and a central window with a round-headed tympanum containing a quartrefoil. A half-hipped gable with cross bracing rises above. The 1st and 2nd floor windows are cambered sashes flanked by giant pilasters with arches above. Bands of black brick and rosette and quartrefoil decorations ornament the facade. The ground floor has 6 triple Caernarvon arched sashes and a cambered arched doorcase. The gabled left wing has a third floor triple casement with a rose window in the tympanum, 2nd floor with 2 mullioned and transomed casements with stone tympanums containing quatrefoil motifs, 1st floor with 2 cambered sashes and ground floor with 2 paired cambered windows. Set back is a tall brick tower with an elongated double lancet bell opening and corbelled top with the spire missing at the time of survey. The left-hand bay is identical to the left wing but includes a 2-storey addition with 1 sash containing quatrefoils and an angled oriel with mullioned and transomed windows and black diaper brick pattern below, plus 2 cambered sashes to the ground floor. Attached to the right is the chapel in identical style and building materials. The chapel comprises a 4-bay nave with an extended bay chancel with triple lancets. Coping with cross-shaped saddlestone to the east and a gabled bell cote to the west, with transepts containing rose windows. A 1-storey link to the school features an arched doorcase.

The north-west elevation has a similar arrangement of 7 bays to the centre and 2 projecting wings of 2 bays. The 3rd floor windows to the centre part are cambered casements. 2nd floor windows are cambered 6-pane sashes with cast iron rosettes and continuous hood moulding. The 1st floor has paired iron lancets with decorative panes and the ground floor has paired Caernarvon arched windows. A 2-storey central porch feature with hipped roof and round-headed arch rises from the north-west front. The wings are gabled with 4th floor sash, 3rd floor triple sash, 2 cambered sashes to 1st and 2nd floors and triple windows to ground floor.

The interior retains a chapel with fairly intact original decoration. An elaborate wooden reredoes features an altar panel depicting Saint Francis Xavier, a brass monstrance and 4 gabled niches with statues of saints. To the left stands a statue of Christ and to the right a statue of the Virgin and Child. The painted east wall depicts the Annunciation to the left and the Coronation of the Virgin to the right, with a series of roundels depicting saints. The rose window contains stained glass depicting angels, 2 bearing the legend ECCE PANIS ANGELDRUM. A painted design to the chancel roof features 'M' symbols. It is thought that the original stencilled wall decoration may remain underneath the 20th-century painted flecked decoration. An original organ with an elaborate Gothic case survives. The link passage to the school has arched braces with rosettes. The refectory comprises 5 bays with stone corbels. The 2nd floor dormitory is of 7 bays and has chamfered beams with rib and fillet and rose motif. The laundry on this floor has built-in cupboards. The 3rd floor has arched braces with trefoil decoration and is thought to have been originally built as an indoor play area. Two staircases with cast iron chamfered supports and handrails are present.

This building was erected as one of a pair with the girls' orphanage of the same date, later known as Saint Joseph's College and the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus at Mayfield.