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Latitude: 53.6975 / 53°41'50"N
Longitude: -2.6986 / 2°41'55"W
OS Eastings: 353970
OS Northings: 422566
OS Grid: SD539225
Mapcode National: GBR 9TLP.K8
Mapcode Global: WH860.JB58
Plus Code: 9C5VM8W2+XH
Entry Name: St Mary's Roman Catholic Junior School
Listing Date: 26 July 1951
Last Amended: 27 February 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1361864
English Heritage Legacy ID: 357949
ID on this website: 101361864
Location: Golden Hill, South Ribble, Lancashire, PR25
County: Lancashire
District: South Ribble
Electoral Ward/Division: Broadfield
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leyland
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Leyland St Ambrose
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: School building
SD 52SW LEYLAND SCHOOL LANE
8/43 St. Mary's RC Junior School
26.7.1951 (formerly listed as No.90(Golden
Hill Schools))
- II
Charity School 1784, altered and enlarged as National School 1816. Stone,
stone slate roof with one chimney on the ridge, another at left gable.
L-shaped plan of 5 bays with attached master's house at right end. Two
storeys; stone quoins, bands at sill level and at 1st floor. Original
front entrance in centre of south side now altered as a window, with a
rectangular stone tablet above, lettered:
In the Year of our Lord
1784
This Charity School was founded endowed and erected by
Richard Balshaw Gentleman
For Instructing the Children of the Poor only of this Parish,
In Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in the English Tongue,
And in the principles of the Church of England As by Law Established
The Girls to be taught also to Knit Sew and Mark.
Left of this a 3-light window rises the full height and has at lst floor
level a Venetian form matched by all the other windows: one on each floor
to the left, 2 on each floor to the right. To the right, the master's
house with projecting gabled centre bay in compatible style and materials;
and at the rear of the original school a single storey extension with 2
venetian windows and slate roof.
Listing NGR: SD5397022566
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