Boundary Walls And Railings, Notre Dame Primary School Including Former Girls Training College And Gatepiers, 66 Victoria Crescent Road

Bruce & Hay, circa 1905. Predominantly 3-storey and attic Free Style school and linked (by high arch to NE) former training college to N set around triangular courtyard. Squared and snecked bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, string courses, some canted bay windows, some bipartite windows with stone mullions. 3 angled blind bell towers to school corbelled from 1st floor with arrow slit windows and trefoil and quatrefoil blind openings breaking eaves. Training college linked at N to former Training Wing to Dowanside House at 74 Victoria Crescent Road (see separate listing).

S (STREET) ELEVATION: to left, 4-bay gabled section flanked by pair of advanced blind bell towers, to right, 10-bay section with broken pedimented entrance to 1st bay ground with 2-leaf timber door.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows with horns, some plate glass, 2-pane and 4-pane. Grey slates.

INTERIOR: simple. School: pair of staircases at W and E of building with cast-iron balusters. Dado height timber boarding. Part-glazed corriders give light and view to classrooms. Top floor assembly hall to W with open timber roof and gallery echoing Pugin & Pugin timberwork at former Chapel (see separate listing). Training college: dado height timber boarding to large classrooms.

GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: to S, low sandstone coped wall with railings with to far right plain stone square pier with pyramidal cap. To left, pair of predominantly red sandstone square piers with decorative gabled caps.