Former schoolhouse

This is a former schoolhouse, built in 1872-1873 and originally associated with the Roman Catholic church of St Mary and St Edmund in Abingdon. It now serves as a parish hall for the church. Designed by Edwin Dolby, the building is constructed of coursed rubble walls with ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof. The porch features timber framing, and the bellcote has a timber frame, shingle tiles to its lower body, a shingled spire roof, and a lead cap.

The building plan comprises three schoolrooms arranged in an “L” shape—two facing west and one in the north wing. A later 20th-century addition projects to the east.

The north face is gabled and features two two-light windows on either side of a stepped buttress. Each window has plate tracery with a mullion and transom, topped with a quatrefoil. Above these are two small rectangular windows within ashlar surrounds, flanked by vertical bands of ashlar. The octagonal bellcote rises from the ridge crest, clad in wood shingles to its lower body and with a shingled spire roof and lead cap. The recessed north face of the porch features stone walling at its base, with timber framing and rectangular windows above.

The west front has a porch entrance at the left, beneath a catslide roof, with timber framed walling and a plank door with decorative metal hinges and a cambered head. To the right are a two-light and a three-light window, both with plate tracery, ashlar surrounds, and a quatrefoil and sexfoil, respectively, at their apex.

The south face has three evenly-spaced two-light openings. The two on the left are windows, and the right-hand opening is a doorway with a half-glazed timber door. Each opening has an ashlar lintel with arched panels. The roof sweeps low, just above the window and door heads.

The east face has a gable on the left with a single lancet window. To the right are three doorways, the right pair seemingly originally windows. A 20th-century addition is attached to the left of centre by a corridor with glazed sides and a pitched, glazed roof. The body of the addition, containing lavatories, is constructed of stretcher-bond red brick with a shallow-pitched, flat roof.

Internally, the largest schoolroom is divided into three bays by wooden trusses, supported by painted wall brackets. Wall posts and arched braces support the cambered tie beams. Above these are queen posts and collars with cut-through trefoil ornament to the arched braces that support them. A smaller school room also has wall brackets and lower wall posts and braces, but a suspended ceiling has since been installed. The third schoolroom in the north wing has exposed purlins but no other structural ornament.