Description

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW ST MARY'S PLACE
590-1/10/92 (South side)
28/01/87 St Mary's Shopping Centre west
building
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MARY'S PLACE
(South side)
St Mary's Church of England School)

GV II

Former school and master's house, now shops. 1856, converted
1990. By Sir Gilbert Scott. Brick with ashlar facades; tile
roof with fishscale bands. L-plan. Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: single storey with 2-storey house to north; 3-window
south range and 4-window west range with re-entrant gabled
porch. Coped gables; windows of 2 or 3 single-chamfered
trefoil-headed lights.
South range has entrance with segmental-pointed head to left
of centre; 3 windows of 3 lights; C20 gabled dormer. Porch has
pointed arch and return half arches leading to through
passage; trefoil to gable.
West range has 2 entrances with segmental-pointed heads;
2-light window to left end and 3 windows of 3 lights; former
house has 3-light window to ground floor and 1st floor 2-light
window; right return has gabled wing to right and lean-to
re-entrant porch with segmental-pointed entrance to return;
2-light window to left; C20 raking dormer over porch and gable
end as to front. C20 glazed canopies on enriched cast-iron
piers. Rear of south range is brick, with short gabled wing.
Rear of west range is of brick; ashlar 1st floor and lateral
stack and gabled projection to former house; short gabled
wing; longer wing to right end has hipped roof with belvedere.
INTERIOR: arch-braced collar roof trusses.
The building forms a courtyard group with the former St Mary's
Church of England Infants' School, qv, to east, immediately to
the south of the Church of St Mary, where Scott carried out
one of the earliest of his many restorations.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW: A
History of Stafford (extract from Vol VI): London: 1979-1982:
261).

Listing NGR: SJ9214023148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507749

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