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*

Easting:
422030

Northing:
565390

Grid Reference:
NZ422030565390

Lats/Lons:

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