Former St Peter's School
FORMER ST PETER'S SCHOOL, 38, ST OSWALD'S PLACE SE11
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1064944
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Peter's School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ST PETER'S SCHOOL, 38, ST OSWALD'S PLACE SE11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1064944
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Peter's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ST PETER'S SCHOOL, 38, ST OSWALD'S PLACE SE11
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:
- FORMER ST PETER'S SCHOOL, 38, ST OSWALD'S PLACE SE11
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lambeth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30726 78133
Details
In the entry for:
ST OSWALD'S PLACE SE11 1. 5023
TQ 3078 4/494 27.1.81 St Peter's School
II GV
the address shall be amended to read "no. 38 (former St Peter's Schools)", the Grade shall be amended to Grade II* (star) and the description shall be amended to read as follows:
1860-1, by J L Pearson. Two storeys, of stock brick with bands and dressings of red brick and Bath stone. Tiled roofs. Irregular composition in picturesque Gothic style, with steeply pitched roofs and tall chimneys. Mullioned windows, some with pointed or cusped lights. South end consists of former master's house with half-hipped gable end. Former school to north of entrance arch groups with house and east end of St Peter's Church to form irregular court. Entrance to school on west side of court below a pyramidal tower. Some later alterations to fenestration on ground floor, north side of court. North of the building, the former art school at nos. 34-36 (1860-1) and soup kitchen (1863-4), also by Pearson, still remain but in altered form and are not included in the listing. The foundation stone of the schools was laid by the Prince of Wales on 27 June 1860. " " Source: Athony Quiney, John Loughborough Pearson, 1979, pp 64-7, 260.
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ST OSWALD'S PLACE SE11 1. 5023 St Peter's School TQ 3078 4/494 27.1.81
II GV
2. Circa 1864. By J L Pearson. Very irregular U-shaped two storey building of stock brick with bands and dressings of red brick and stone. Very steeply pitched slated roofs with fancy ridge tiles. Projecting chimney breasts breaking eaves with tall shafts soaring up beyond roof ridge. Most windows grouped in twos and fours, with stone heads and cusped, pointed or round lights, some with pierced trefoils. Projecting square tower in angle has pyramidal roof with dormer.
Listing NGR: TQ3072678133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 204620
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Quiney, A, John Loughborough Pearson, (1979), 64-7, 260
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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