Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
St Mary’s Primary School
Town Parks, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- School
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- St Mary’s Primary School, Agnew Street, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 1RF
- Townland
- Town Parks
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.85298, -5.81422
- Date of survey
- 21 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/12/027
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A gabled single-storey school with a flat-roofed entrance block at one end. Wet dashed walls, painted white; slated roof; large rectangular metal framed windows to main block with ocular windows and large ball finials to each end gable. The building stands well off the road immediately surrounded by tarmac and reached by a tarmac path, and is sited close to a listed Victorian church.
Historical information
Built in 1925 as St Mary’s Girls Public Elementary School; later named St Mary’s Primary School; merged with St Joseph’s Primary School to become St MacNissi’s Primary School in 1993.
References - Secondary
1. The Parish of Larne: A Short History (Larne, 1994).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An example of an inter-war school which retains some of its original features but has also been altered.
Nearby in the register
- St MacNissi’s RC ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Laharna HotelDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Methodist ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Smiley BuildingsOfficeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.