Description

1. BEECHES GREEN

5227 (South Side) Convent of St Rose of Lima SO 8405 5/114 SO 8505 5/114 II Gv 2. 1867. Architect Benjamin Bucknell. House of Dominican sisters. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Pitched tile roofs. 3 storeys and attics, Stone rainwater gutters on prominent corbels at eaves level. Coped gables and kneelers. Staircase turret with pyramidal sprocketed roof, crowned by wooden bellcote: windows graded along line of stairs. Mullioned windows. some with hoodmoulds, some with Caernarvon arches. 2 timber-framed oriels running through lst and 2nd floor levels, and lmore at 2nd floor level only. Porch with tiled roof, taken on wooden brackets. Chapel (added 1888-95 to Bucknell's design) is aisleless. 5 bays of quadripartite rib vaulting and polygonel chevet. Colonnettes taken on corbels; Remois passage behind. Plate tracery in windows. The Church of the Immaculate Conception, its Presbytery, Sacristy and Parish Hall, the Convent of St Rose of Lima, The Rosary, and Beechville form group.

Listing NGR: SO8494105408

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)