Description

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9474SW DAWLISH ROAD
25-1/3/121 (West side)
30/06/49 St Scholastica's Abbey
(Formerly Listed as:
DAWLISH ROAD
(West side)
No.99
St Scholastica's Abbey)

II

Former Benedictine nunnery, now in the course of being adapted
to apartments. 1862, by George Goldie. Limestone rubble, bands
of red sandstone, mostly cream freestone dressings, slate roof
with banded stone stacks to various slopes, ridges and gable
ends.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: Irregular, 46.6m wide at the front with a rear left wing
of 38.4m.
EXTERIOR: 2, 3 and 4 storeys; 10-window range to the 3-storey
south garden front which is the most elaborate and has a
full-width flight of steps rising from the garden. Sash
windows; shouldered arches to 2nd-floor windows at eaves
level, flat-arched windows to the 1st floor, those to the
south front in an arcade of 17 pointed arches with alternate
red and cream voussoirs; windows in alternate arches; similar
voussoirs to segmental-arched ground-floor 2-light windows.
The west front is similar but simple, the chapel projecting to
the right of the garden front has an octagonal tower with
gablets to alternate facets and belfry stage surmounted by
spire with lucarnes above the forward-facing gable, and
pointed-arched windows.
The rear service range, now called the Priest's House, is
lower, of 2 storeys including a semi-basement; it has 7
windows and a 1st-floor loading bay.
INTERIOR: the apartment to the right of the centre of the
garden front was formerly part of the cloisters. The large
shared entrance hall has a trefoil-headed niche to the left
and an open-well staircase with turned balusters and square
newels. The former cloister has panelled shutters and a
continuous arch-braced roof; a small chapel to the
ground-floor centre has an altar with cinquefoil niches, and a
confessional; the main chapel not inspected but noted as
having foliate carving to apsed sanctuary painted by Elphege
Pippet of Hardman's, redecorated 1962, reredos added 1932,
some original grisaille glass and altars by Hansom.

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HISTORICAL NOTE: St Scholastica's Benedictine nunnery was
founded in 1662 in Dunkirk, France. Driven out in 1793 by the
French revolution, it came first to Hammersmith and in 1863 to
Teignmouth.

Listing NGR: SX9453074064

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Teignmouth Abbey at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7694999

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)