Tyne and Wear HER(8850): Fenham Hall Drive, St. Mary's Training College - Details
8850
Newcastle
Fenham Hall Drive, St. Mary's Training College
Fenham
NZ26NW
Education
College
Teacher Training College
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
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*
422030
565390
NZ422030565390
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