FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL, WESTON STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291587
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL, WESTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291587
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL, WESTON STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER TALBOT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL, WESTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 52948 29927

Details

PRESTON

SD5229 WESTON STREET 941-1/6/289 (East side) former Talbot RC Primary School

GV II

School, currently undergoing restoration and conversion as library. 1847-9 (dated 1849 over south doorway). Uncoursed brown sandstone rubble, with dressings of lighter-coloured sandstone and graduated slate roof. L-plan formed by a long rectangular range at right-angles to the street containing 2 large halls with a lateral passage between them, with a transept at the east end of the north side. Early English style. One storey under a high steeply-pitched roof, 7+1+7 bays, with low side walls and a large west gable to the street. The gable has side buttresses with 2 offsets, a stepped group of 3 tall cusped lancets in the centre flanked by similar but smaller lancets, and a coped gable with the stool of a former finial. The south front has matching buttresses, coupled cusped lancets in each bay (but the 3 easternmost bays now covered by a later C19 addition), and in the centre a wide one-and-a-half storey gabled porch breaking forwards slightly with a taller octagonal stair turret attached to its right-hand corner; the porch has a 2-centred arched doorway with shafts, a tablet above this with raised lettering "IHS / MUNIFICENTIAE / GULIELMI TALBOT / SOCIETATI PERENNE MONUMENTUM / [1]849" (1st digit missing), and a window of 3 stepped cusped lights in the gable; the turret has small lancets and a conical-octagonal cap. The roof has a small dormer above the porch and 2 ventilators on the ridge. The rear and north transept are in matching style (but former rear porch, subsequently altered as chimney, under reconstruction at time of survey), and the transept has one taller 2-light window with a gable over. Irregular extension to rear of transept, in similar style and materials. INTERIOR: wide central passage with inner porch at south end, large 2-centred arches in centre and coupled segmental-pointed windows beyond (with shafts) all opening into halls on each side; spiral staircase to attic over passage; large halls, each with 6 large arch-braced hammerbeam roof trusses which have trefoil arcading above the collars; 3-bay arcade to transept, which also has hammerbeam roof but of differing design. History: probably served as both church and school before opening of church of St Walburge (q.v.) in 1854. Forms group with that church, which it resembles in materials and roof construction.

Listing NGR: SD5294829927

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Legacy System number:: 392186
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.