St Michaels Convent

SU 60 NE HAVANT LONDON ROAD Waterlooville 100/3/10016 St Michael's Convent 02.02.99

GV II

Convent. 1889; by Leonard Stokes; with later additions; extensions on south 1965 by H Tompsett and Elisabeth Holliss. Buff-coloured in Flemish bond, with red brick dressings. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and deep swept eaves. Plain brick axial, lateral and gable-end stacks. PLAN: L-shaped on plan, with N.W wing attached to convent church added in 1922/5. Domestic Revival-Queen Anne style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Nearly symmetrical 5-bay west front; large 3-light ground floor sashes with glazing bars, cambered red brick arches, and splayed jambs integrated into wide flat red brick buttress between the windows and terminating on first floor; central entrance with wide canopy with segmental pediment, doorway under to right with band of casements to left and right; 6 small 2-light sashes on first floor with glazing bars; lateral stacks to left and right of centre with flat roof dormer between and small pediment over; 2 small flat roof dormers to left. Wing on left with wide dormer beside stack and gabled projection with large Venetian-type window; flat roof extension linking convent with church to west. Later accretions at rear (E) and 1965 extension on south end. INTERIOR: not inspected. SOURCES: Buildings of England; p.645. Gray, A. Stuart; Edwardian Architecture, p. 337.

Listing NGR: SU6875008202