Library at St John's School
LIBRARY AT ST JOHN'S SCHOOL, EPSOM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028621
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Library at St John's School
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY AT ST JOHN'S SCHOOL, EPSOM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028621
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Library at St John's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY AT ST JOHN'S SCHOOL, EPSOM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY AT ST JOHN'S SCHOOL, EPSOM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17038 56663
Details
LEATHERHEAD EPSOM ROAD TQ/15/NE (north side) 3/133
4.12.80 Library at St John's School
GV II
School chapel, now library. Dated 1876 at west end; altered internally. Flint with sandstone dressings, red tile roof. Nave with apsidal chancel, south porch and south vestry. Gothic style. The 5-bay nave has a plinth, buttresses and 2-centred arched openings with hoodmoulds; on the south side the 1st bay has a gabled porch with outer doorway moulded in 2 orders, the 5th bay has a gabled vestry with stone pinnacles flanking the gable, which contains a geometrical rose window, and the other bays have 2-light windows with plate tracery; the north side has a doorway to the 1st bay and similar windows in the other bays. The west gable wall has a large 4-light west window with bar tracery, a small quatrefoil near the apex, and a stone plaque mounted over the centre of the plinth, inscribed: IN NO MINE DOMINI HVNC LAPIDEM POSVIT EDVARDVS HAROLDVS EPISCOP WINTON MDCCCLXXVI At the east end, the chancel has three similar 2-light windows but with central shafts which have stiff-leaf capitals. Interior: wallshafts to a roof structure which is now concealed by an inserted ceiling; otherwise, not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TQ1703856663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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