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IoE Number:
216975
Location:
MAIN BLOCK TO OSCOTT COLLEGE, COLLEGE ROAD B23
BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
N/A
Date listed:
25 April 1952
Date of last amendment:
19 January 1983
Grade
II*
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In the entry for COLLEGE ROAD
3/12 Main Ascott B23
Main block to St Mary's
College
The address shall be amended to read COLLEGE ROAD
Main Ascott B23
Main block to Oscott
College
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COLLEGE ROAD
1.
5104
New Oscott B23
Main block to St Mary's College
(formerly listed as St Marys
Seminary excluding Chapel
and The Chapel of St Marys
Seminary under Moseley)
SF 09 SE 3/12 25.4.52
II*
2.
1835-38. Planned as a Roman Catholic College, following the Emancipation, by Dr Mirk,
the missioner at Lichfield, with Joseph Potter of Lichfield as builder and architect
but with A W N Pugin providing the decoration and finishbes of the Chapel and the
sculpture. Red brick stone dressed college buildings in a simple Tudor style ranged
with a main front to the south-east with gables end crenellated parapets; mullioned-
transomed windows. The central block of the south-east range is of 4 bays on 3
storeys and has gables flanking the central tower with tiered large oriel window and
octagonal staircase turret. Lying behind this block is the cloister flanked on one
side by the Chapel and museum and on the other by the 1920's addition of the informary,
but with original coach house range and plain service wing behind it of red brick with
slate roofs. In 1837 Lord Shrewsbury introduced Pugin to the College and he immediately
supplemented Potter in the decoration and furnishings of the Chapel and the firm
executed much of the furniture still servicing in the College. Potter's simple still
Georgian Chapel, albeit with a Tudor style roof, was completely decorated by Pugin in
rich polychrome patterns which together with the furnishings, a number C15, C16 or C17
acquired in the Low Countries by Pugin and Shrewsbury during their tour in 1841, form
a unique combination of medieval and Revival Gothic, following the principles
enunciated in his 'Contrasts' of 1836. Pugin's only structural alteration was the
provision of the shallow apse in 1861. E W Pugin added the Weedall Chantry: the four
side chapels to the south-west. Stained glass by Hardman and Warrington, the latter
executing the exceptionally fine east window to Pugin's design on a C14 model. To the
north-east of Potter's cloister is Northcote Hall of 1859 by E W Pugin completed in 1881
by P P Pugin, red brick stone dressed in demonstrative Gothic and the library and
students' common room added 1927-8 and 1950-72 respectively by G B Cox.