The Playhouse, Artillery Street, Londonderry / Derry
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The Playhouse, Artillery Street, Londonderry / Derry
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 12 Sep 2006
Grade B1 listed former national schoolhouse (No.7 St Mary's girls high school) was built 1887, the lower sections (Nos. 5-6), in view here were built 1911 and known as St. Joseph’s Primary School; however both schoolhouses continued to be collectively known as ‘the convent schools’. St Joseph's was designed by E.J. Toye. Still in use as a school in 1970 the school had vacated the site by the 1980s. Threatened with demolition in 1986 the buildings were eventually acquired by the DoE in the early 1990s. The Irish inscription above the door reads "The House of St Joseph for our Girls for the Convent of Mercy". The Playhouse was established in 1992. In 2004 The Playhouse won the N.Irish heat of the national television competition, BBC Restoration. The Playhouse re-launched on 27th November 2009 following a £4.6m refurbishment project undertaken by Andrzej Blonski Architects.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.994269
Longitude
-7.320961