Description

SK 0043-0143 CHEADLE C.P. BANK STREET (South side)

11/30 Convent of St. Joseph

GV II

Convent. A late C18 domestic building altered and considerably extended by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin circa 1845. Red brick with stone dressings; tiled roofs, banded and with crested verge parapets to Pugin's additions. In three distinct parts, a U-shaped building around an inner courtyard fronted to the street and churchyard. On the west side of the street frontage the C18 building of 3 storeys and two windows; glazing bar sashes with painted wedged heads; the top floor has half-dormer gablets over large pane sashes. Attached to the east and fronting church and street, a single-storey range by Pugin; blind to the street except for a stone dressed Tudor arch door to the right; the projecting gabled east return has a labelled pointed 2-light window continuing into a long blind range flanking the churchyard. Facing east into the courtyard is a two-storey, four-window range by Pugin, attached to the street front by a tall square steeply gabled tower.

Listing NGR: SK0079343171

External Links

• Wikidata Q26655534

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)