The Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. Presbytery.
The Presbytery
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-vestry-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1974
- Type
- Presbytery
- Address
- The Presbytery, Albert Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 086 912
- Coordinates
- 50.72102, -1.87847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Presbytery, built around 1874 by Henry Clutton for the Society of Jesus, is a long, narrow, single-aspect building made of buff brick with stone dressings. It is attached along its north side to the Church of the Sacred Heart, which means it is mostly lit by the windows on its impressive south front. The building has two storeys facing the street and three storeys towards the garden. A central staircase tourelle with a conical spire is symmetrically flanked on each side by a pair of broad, three-storey, mullioned canted bay windows. There are half-hipped dormers set back behind the parapet. A west wing facing Post Office Road was added around 1920. The interiors are plain, featuring only an iron handrail on the staircase. The Presbytery and the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart are recognized as a group.
Local climate
The Presbytery 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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