Description

CORSHAM PICKWICK ST 87 SE (south side) 1/317 Church of Saint Patrick and No. 54 II

Schools, now Roman Catholic church and attached house, 1857-8 by H.E. and A.S. Goodridge of Bath. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings, Gothic style. School has plain tile roofs, coped gables and stepped buttresses at all angles. Complex 'Z'-plan with additional range in rear south-east angle and projecting gabled porch in angle between north gable and east wing. Principal north- south range with wings to north-east and south-west, all gables treated similarly with stepped sill course under plate traceried windows with stepped cusped heads to lights, 4-light to main north and east gables, 3-light to south and west, and cusped trefoil in apex. North and south gables have corner stacks, north gable has steep ashlar bellcote. Porch has segmental-pointed doorway, ribbon scroll over and statue niche in apex. North front of east wing has 3-light window reaching into dormer gable and small 2-light to left, both with cusped heads. West side has similar 3-light and dormer gable with 2-light to left, 3-light to right. South side has 2-light to left of main gable. To rear south-east is range with east end stack, 2 dormer gables with 2-light pointed windows breaking eaves, and door each side with ribbon scroll reading 'Girls School' to left, 'Boys School' to right. A projection between the doors with stepped gable has been extended (1985) to mask right-side door. Complex triple-purlin roofs within, inserted floor to main north-south range. House, to east, has stone tiled roof, 2-storey with cross-wing adjoining school and coped east gable. North front has ashlar canted porch in angle to school, gable with 2-light window to each floor, pointed heads above, shouldered below and part infilled in ashlar to line of stair. Large outside stack to left, dated 1858 with 3-light shouldered- head window in base. South side cross-wing has half-hipped gable, cusped 3-light upper window over off-centre triangular ashlar bay with 2-light mullion-and-transom window on each face. Wing to right has upper single-light breaking eaves. Lean-to on east end wall with 2-light window over. Originally Pickwick District Schools, built for Sir G. Goldney M.P. Design exhibited Royal Academy 1857.

Listing NGR: ST8597070489

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