Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/242 (South side)
No.40
St Paul's Church House and attached
Parochial Rooms

GV II

Parochial rooms and house. c1870-80 with later additions and
alterations. Probably by John Cundall. Reddish-brown brick
with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Jacobean style.
Irregular plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows, 2 to left in
taller, wider range, then single-bay lower range and
gable-ended bay, and with range to rear. Chamfered plinth.
Buttresses to ends to ground floor. 2 entrances below 3rd.
window: pair of ogeed arches with 3 steps to plank doors
within hollow-chamfered surrounds. To left are 2 pairs of
casement windows with cambered-arched heads in
hollow-chamfered surrounds and with ogee-arched hoodmoulds and
chamfered sills. To right a rectangular bay with 3-light
mullion and transom windows.
First floor: to left range a continuous chamfered sill band
and pair of 2-light windows with plate tracery to heads and
projecting double gable. Then a mullion window with casements
in gable. The 2-light mullion and transom window with
casements under hoodmould. Copings to gables. Tall star-shaped
ridged stack and grouped right end stacks. Above entrance a
plaque inscribed: 'SAINT PAUL'S / PAROCHIAL ROOMS / & CHURCH
HOUSE.' Single tall-storey room to rear has 3 pairs of
multi-pane casement windows under cambered heads. Pair of
lancet windows to rear, now blocked.
INTERIOR: retains some fireplaces; rear room has pilasters
supporting roof beams. Staircase has turned balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was architect of the adjacent
Church of St Paul (qv) and of the Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with Church of St
Paul (qv).

Listing NGR: SP3222766291

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661494

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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