Boundary Walls, Former Notre Dame Training College Chapel And Practising School, 74 Victoria Crescent Road

Pugin & Pugin, 1898-1900. Gothic cruciform former church with former practising school to ground floor with later alterations and additions including red brick rear extension. Predominantly squared and snecked bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar margins. Part base course, buttresses divide bays, predominantly segmental headed windows to school and bipartite plate tracery to church.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: original tripartite apse boxed in by later circa 1909 shallow extension probably by Pugin & Pugin. 4-storey 5-bay with recessed blind gables to left and right, single bay in re-entrant angle. Round headed windows to first 3 floors. To outer bays ground recessed entrance doors flank 3-bay section. To centre of 3rd floor, stone niche statue. Above, original apse has bipartite dormerheaded window breaking eaves.

E ELEVATION: advanced paired gable 2-bay section with 2-bay section to left and 6-bay section to right attaches to former Dowanside House (see separate listing) at right angles.

Predominantly modern glazing, little stained glass remains (see interior and notes). Grey slates.

INTERIOR: good quality timberwork throughout. Timber quatrefoil glazed screen with small leaded panes and part-glazed entrance door to N. Robust timber screen to church (similar to top floor of Dowanside House, see separate listing). Pair of complete stained glass windows survive. Predominantly whitewashed. Practising school: simple but with good quality timberwork. Glazed tiles or timber boarded dado height decoration. Decorative glazed screens to upper part of corridors giving light and view to classrooms. Partly hidden gehind boarding to corridor and classroom (possibly more extensive) circa 1926 large and impressive chalk and paint murals by Sister Theresa Bernard, headteacher. Variety of subjects, including Jerusalem, Karnak, Taj Mahal and Assyrian Temple.

BOUNDARY WALLS: to S, section of curved and buttressed squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone wall with steps leading to entrances to church and school. To SE, stepped section of coursed bull-faced red sandstone wall adjacent to playground.