Cathedral House and former Convent of Christ the King

Heritage listing

Details Cathedral House and former convent. Constructed in 1962 to 1967 for the adjacent Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of the same date to designs by Frederick Gibberd and Partners. MATERIALS: the flat-roofed buildings are faced in Portland stone. PLAN: Cathedral House is attached to the former Convent of Christ the King by a single-storey link block and they stand on the east side of the cathedral podium to which they are joined by enclosed corridors. EXTERIOR: the two rectangular, two-storey, flat-roofed blocks are aligned north-south and stepped with a single-storey block linking them. They are faced in Portland stone blocks with recessed concrete plinths (painted black) and sloping slate sills to windows. The front elevations face east onto Mount Pleasant with Cathedral House to the left and the former convent to the right. The ground floors have irregularly spaced and numbered rows of vertical strip windows. Cathedral House has a door towards the right-hand end which is inscribed CATHEDRAL HOUSE and the convent towards the left-hand end. Both doorways have deep, textured concrete lintels over doors with sidelights. The convent doorway is also flanked by two small, vertical windows. Between the left window and the door is inscribed CONVENT / OF / CHRIST THE KING and an inset doorbell. The single-storey link at the right-hand end of Cathedral House has a wide doorway with timber double doors with vertical strip glazing and a narrow, horizontal window to the right. The first floor of Cathedral House has four evenly-spaced, large casement windows with timber panelled aprons and metal panels above, separated by three narrow, horizontal windows. The convent has seven casement windows offset to the right with metal panels above. The south end elevation of Cathedra

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.