Description

SWINTON & PENDLEBURY BOLTON ROAD SD 70 SE (south-west side) 2/3 The Environmental Institute (formerly listed as St. Augustine's 30/3/66 School) G.V. II

Former St. Augustine's School, now offices. c.1874. By G. F. Bodley for Edward Stanley Heywood. Brick with stone dressings and clay tile roof. A long hall totalling 8 bays which has a C20 mezzanine floor inserted within. Free Gothic style. Bays 1 and 8 project as gabled wings; they have two 2-light mullion and transom windows below a carved stone panel and coped gables with kneelers. The other bays each have a weathered and gableted buttress and two 3-light mullion and transom windows below a continuous hoodmould. The steep roof has a row of C20 rooflights and an elegant cupola bell-cote. Mullion and transom windows in the gable- ends flank a central buttress. An arched door in the left return has a moulded stone surround and cusped panelling above. A wall adjoins at the rear and encloses a yard. The rear elevation is treated similarly. Interior much altered to facilitate conversion to offices.

Listing NGR: SD7878201653

External Links

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