Convent Of The Handmaids Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus (Boscombe Convent School, Senior Department) is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Convent. 8 related planning applications.

Convent Of The Handmaids Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus (Boscombe Convent School, Senior Department)

WRENN ID
shifting-corner-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1976
Type
Convent
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 5186 PARKWOOD ROAD (South West Side) No 13 [Convent of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Boscombe Convent School, Senior Department)] SZ 1291 29/256

II

  1. Former Convent of the Cross. Big symmetrical Elizabethan-style E-plan front in Purbeck rubble, 1889. 4-storey shaped gables to centre and wings, 2 storeys and attic between. Porch with sculptured angels adoring cross in spandrels, canted oriel over. Windows stone-mullioned, mostly 3-light with transom or 2-light with transom. Asymmetrical rear: north wing (with 2 narrow transverse gables) and far-projecting central wing both end in shaped gables, shorter south wing (with transverse shaped gable and 1 transverse ordinary gable) connects to chapel:

Early English style, 5 bays, lancets within continuous arcade of big blind relieving arches. Gabled bellcote with fleche on ridge.

Listing NGR: SZ1217192001

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