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
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Convent
- Address
- Convent of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Boscombe Convent School, Senior Department), 13, Parkwood Road, BH5 2DF
- OS grid reference
- SZ 121 919
- Coordinates
- 50.72749, -1.82892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Convent of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, also known as Boscombe Convent School's Senior Department, is a former convent built in 1889. It features a large, symmetrical Elizabethan-style E-plan front made of Purbeck rubble. The building has four storeys with shaped gables at the centre and wings, and two storeys plus an attic in between. The entrance porch is adorned with sculptured angels that are adoring a cross in the spandrels, and there is a canted oriel above. The windows are mostly stone-mullioned, with three-light or two-light configurations, both featuring transoms.
The rear of the building is asymmetrical, with the north wing containing two narrow transverse gables and a far-projecting central wing that ends in shaped gables. The shorter south wing connects to the chapel and has a transverse shaped gable along with one ordinary transverse gable. The chapel is designed in an Early English style with five bays and lancet windows set within a continuous arcade of large blind relieving arches. Atop the building is a gabled bellcote with a fleche on the ridge.
Local climate
Convent of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Boscombe Convent School, Senior Department) receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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