IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Princess Street, PRESTON, PR1 4HS

Located on Manchester Road, this 6th form college provides a range of A-level, BTEC and Higher Education courses along with Initial Teacher Training.

Sculpture next to Lincoln House, Preston.

The old Grimshaw Street School is a grade II listed building (English Heritage Building ID: 392043 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-392043-grimshaw-street-school-lancashire British Listed Buildings) attached to Image Dated 1836 and 1845, with a hall of 1882 to the south. The school contrasts with the church, being constructed in red brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar details and slate roof. The 1836/45 portion is of a classically derived style, typical of the region and period. The centre has a stone plaque at 1st floor inscribed "ERECTED / 1836 / ENLARGED / 1845", and a long upstand on the cornice with raised lettering "GRIMSHAW ST SCHOOL". The added south wing is gothic in contrast, but of matching materials.

Cardinal Newman College is a Catholic sixth form college close to the centre of Preston. The St Augustine’s Centre was acquired in 2010. This building hosts a variety of newly renovated classrooms and drama/dance studios as well as the original sports facilities. A notable feature is the front portico and flanking towers of the former St Augustine’s of Canterbury RC Church facing onto St Austin’s Road. St Augustine's of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church was built between 1838-40; in 1879 it was enlarged by the addition of a new sanctuary. Major alterations were made in 1890 when the church's front was remodelled by the construction of two towers surmounted by cupolas being added to the refashioned earlier Ionic portico. Collapse of part of the ceiling and panelling in 1984 led to the discovery of widespread dry rot and the church was immediately closed. It remained closed until demolition in 2004*, after which a new community centre was constructed on the site of the former church and land immediately adjacent. Despite demolition of the main section of the church, the front portico and towers remain intact. They are Grade II listed by English Heritage because “the well-balanced and successfully executed juxtaposition of Classical Ionic and Italian Renaissance design from the 1890s modification of the church provides significant architectural merit” and “the surviving elements of the former church remain as a conspicuous architectural element of the local streetscape” (English Heritage Building ID: 392137 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-392137-front-portico-and-towers-of-the-former-s British Listed Buildings). * A number of photographs taken during the demolition may be seen at St Augustine’s Flickr photostream https://www.flickr.com/photos/catholicpreston/page3/ .

Sports and Education facility

This church use to be a United Reformed Church

St Augustine's of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church was built between 1838-40; in 1879 it was enlarged by the addition of a new sanctuary. Major alterations were made in 1890 when the church's front was remodelled by the construction of two towers surmounted by cupolas being added to the refashioned earlier Ionic portico. Collapse of part of the ceiling and panelling in 1984 led to the discovery of widespread dry rot and the church was immediately closed. It remained closed until demolition in 2004*, after which a new community centre was constructed on the site of the former church and land immediately adjacent. In 2011, the centre was acquired by the Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College. Despite demolition of the main section of the church, the front portico and towers remain intact. They are Grade II listed by English Heritage because “the well-balanced and successfully executed juxtaposition of Classical Ionic and Italian Renaissance design from the 1890s modification of the church provides significant architectural merit” and “the surviving elements of the former church remain as a conspicuous architectural element of the local streetscape” (English Heritage Building ID: 392137 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-392137-front-portico-and-towers-of-the-former-s British Listed Buildings). * A number of photographs taken during the demolition may be seen at St Augustine’s Flickr photostream https://www.flickr.com/photos/catholicpreston/page3/ .

St Augustine's of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church was built between 1838-40; in 1879 it was enlarged by the addition of a new sanctuary. Major alterations were made in 1890 when the church's front was remodelled by the construction of two towers surmounted by cupolas being added to the refashioned earlier Ionic portico. Collapse of part of the ceiling and panelling in 1984 led to the discovery of widespread dry rot and the church was immediately closed. It remained closed until demolition in 2004*, after which a new community centre was constructed on the site of the former church and land immediately adjacent. In 2011, the centre was acquired by the Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College. Despite demolition of the main section of the church, the front portico and towers remain intact. They are Grade II listed by English Heritage because “the well-balanced and successfully executed juxtaposition of Classical Ionic and Italian Renaissance design from the 1890s modification of the church provides significant architectural merit” and “the surviving elements of the former church remain as a conspicuous architectural element of the local streetscape” (English Heritage Building ID: 392137 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-392137-front-portico-and-towers-of-the-former-s British Listed Buildings). * A number of photographs taken during the demolition may be seen at St Augustine’s Flickr photostream https://www.flickr.com/photos/catholicpreston/page3/ .

Formerly Known as Preston United Reformed Church (and before that Grimshaw Street Congregational Chapel). The church building is gothic in style. It was constructed as Grimshaw Street Congregational Chapel in 1857-59, on the site of an earlier chapel dating from 1810. The church became Grimshaw Street United Reformed Church following amalgamation of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in 1972. It was purchased following redundancy to become the Preston Seventh Day Adventist Church ca 2005. The church is constructed in coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar details and a Welsh slate roof. The tripartite west front is formed by a gabled centre flanked by square two-stage towers, that on the left with a spire (the other uncompleted). It has a large 2-centred arched 4-light window with quatrefoil tracery and hood mould, and above this a small arched trefoil window with sill lettered: "AD MDCCCLIX" (1859). The church is designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building (English Heritage Building ID: 392044 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-392044-united-reformed-church-lancashire British Listed Buildings).