Saint John's College

Building misc in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1865–1870

Detached eleven-bay two-, three- and four-storey Gothic-style seminary, built 1867 - 1868, on a quadrangular plan about a cloister/courtyard comprising three-bay three-storey entrance bay to centre with three-bay three-storey flanking bays with dormer attic, single-bay four-storey corner towers on rectangular plan having three-bay four-storey side elevations, ten-bay two-storey perpendicular wings with dormer attics to north and to south, and eleven-bay two-storey wing to east (completing courtyard) incorporating four-bay full-height chapel having single-bay full-height canted apse to east. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roofs on a quadrangular plan (gabled to dormer attic windows; half-polygonal to chancel to chapel) with clay and rolled lead ridge tiles, squared rubble stone chimney stacks having cut-limestone quoins, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded cut-limestone eaves. Broken coursed squared rubble sandstone walls with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners, and horizontal bands to each floor. Squared rubble sandstone parapet to entrance bay (between chimney stacks) with inscribed panels, pointed oval panel with statuary on elongated colonettes, and gablet to centre having cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings to ground floor with cut-limestone chamfered sills, block-and-start surrounds, moulded continuous stringcourse to sp

Type:
Building misc

Period:
1865–1870

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.25°N, 7.11°W

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