Princethorpe College

Heritage listing

Details PRINCETHORPE SP37SE 4/37 Princethorpe College GV II Shown on Ordnance Survey map as St. Mary Priory. Convent, now a Roman Catholic school. 1833-35 by Craven, with additions to west and former mortuary chapel of 1842-43 by Joseph Hansom. Old church, now theatre and classroom, of 1835-7 by Craven, with alterations by Hansom completed in 1843. Nun's Cemetery of c.1837-38, Front range, originally Guest House of 1836-40, probably by Hansom. Various late C19 and C2i) additions. Red brick. Slate roofs; brick stacks. Large irregular courtyard plan. Various styles. One, 2 and 3 storeys. Former Guest House has painted rendered plinth, moulded string course and cornice, coped gable parapets and dressings. E-plan. Simple Tudor Gothick style. 2 storeys; 1:1:1:1:1 bays. Symmetrical front has gabled projecting centre and wings. Centre is treated as a gatehouse, with octagonal clasping buttresses rising into castellated turrets. Moulded arched doorway with hood mould. Gothick panelled double-leaf doors and traceried overlight. Sashes throughout have gauged brick flat arches. Gable has rendered Gothick panel. Wings have tripartite sashes. Shallow gables have cornice across, moulded kneelers, and slit lancets. Interior: spacious scrolled string quarter turn staircase with stick balusters. Old Church is of English bond brick with moulded L cornice and stone dressings. Roof has stone coped gable parapets and moulded kneelers. Original plan of nave, shallow chancel and east chapel, and south (ritually east) bell turret. 6-bay nave, 2-bay chancel. Tracery probably by Hansom. 3-light south window has transom and geometrical tracery and hood mould. Moulded stone string course across gable. Kneelers have pyramid finials. Square turret has moulded stone sill course, attached shafts, nail

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.