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Our Lady's Convent and School Adjoining

A Grade II Listed Building in Loughborough, Leicestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7657 / 52°45'56"N

Longitude: -1.2072 / 1°12'26"W

OS Eastings: 453587

OS Northings: 318969

OS Grid: SK535189

Mapcode National: GBR 8KT.MLR

Mapcode Global: WHDHQ.FRC4

Plus Code: 9C4WQQ8V+74

Entry Name: Our Lady's Convent and School Adjoining

Listing Date: 5 November 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1115510

English Heritage Legacy ID: 189446

ID on this website: 101115510

Location: Loughborough, Charnwood, Leicestershire, LE11

County: Leicestershire

District: Charnwood

Electoral Ward/Division: Loughborough Southfields

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Loughborough

Traditional County: Leicestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire

Church of England Parish: Loughborough Emmanuel

Church of England Diocese: Leicester

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Description


SK 51 NW
5/75

PARK ROAD
(north side)
Our Lady's Convent and
School adjoining

II

Convent, with chapel, priest's house and school. Begun 1850, and built slowly
during the next few decades (Chapel 1863-4,School altered 1889, priest's house late
C19). By Charles Hansom. Red brick with whitened headers and stone dressings,
Swithland slate roofs (school has plain tile roof) with white brick crosses in the
gable ends. Gothic Revival. Convent buildings round cloister porch, with chapel to
west and priest's house and school to south. The school is linked to the convent by
a range built 1855 to form 3 sides of a quadrangle. Two-storeys and attic. East
facade of convent 7 window range. Four-centred doorway to left. Two dormers and
2 red brick chimney stacks in slope of roof, the left-hand one with 2 lancets.
Fenestration mostly pairs of cusped lancets, some with transoms, with casement
windows and glazing bars, beneath segmental brick relieving arches. Apsidal chapel
with side chapels, lit by "Geometrical" traceried Windows (ritual north windows
C20), has waggon roof carried on corbels and west gallery. Reredos by Theodore
Phyffers 1873. School re-windowed in keeping with convent and 2-storey porch and
verandah added 1889. Mortuary chapel by Charles Hansom's son, and infant's school
in Italianate style in grounds. House of Rosminian sisters, founded by Mary Agnes
Amherst. C20 additions to school not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SK5358718969

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