Fenham Hall Drive, St. Mary's Training College
Fenham Hall Drive, St. Mary's Training College
HER Number
8850
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Fenham Hall Drive, St. Mary's Training College
Place
Fenham
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Education
Site Type: Broad
College
Site Type: Specific
Teacher Training College
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Teacher training college; 1907 as school by Leonard Stokes for Sacred Heart
Society. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; plinth and rusticated quoins;
graduated Lakeland slate roof. U-shaped range around courtyard. 2 storeys and
attics. 3 wide bays on each front plus wide angle pavilions with large round
bows facing; taller, flanking towers. Main south front: sashes with glazing bars
in groups of 3 and 5. Deep cornice and parapet before mansard with dormers.
3 tall front; chimneys. 3-storey pavilions have rusticated quoins to second floor
level; modillioned eaves cornices. Cornices at same level to flanking towers and
parapets of full storey height above. Full-height buttresses on tower returns.
Return elevations of similar style. LISTED GRADE 2*
Society. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; plinth and rusticated quoins;
graduated Lakeland slate roof. U-shaped range around courtyard. 2 storeys and
attics. 3 wide bays on each front plus wide angle pavilions with large round
bows facing; taller, flanking towers. Main south front: sashes with glazing bars
in groups of 3 and 5. Deep cornice and parapet before mansard with dormers.
3 tall front; chimneys. 3-storey pavilions have rusticated quoins to second floor
level; modillioned eaves cornices. Cornices at same level to flanking towers and
parapets of full storey height above. Full-height buttresses on tower returns.
Return elevations of similar style. LISTED GRADE 2*
Easting
422030
Northing
565390
Grid Reference
NZ422030565390
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/238; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 517