Sir Walter St John's Grammar School
SIR WALTER ST JOHN'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 28-36, BATTERSEA HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183457
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sir Walter St John's Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- SIR WALTER ST JOHN'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 28-36, BATTERSEA HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183457
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sir Walter St John's Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIR WALTER ST JOHN'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 28-36, BATTERSEA HIGH STREET
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:
- SIR WALTER ST JOHN'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 28-36, BATTERSEA HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Wandsworth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26893 76621
Details
BATTERSEA HIGH STREET 1. 5033 Nos 28-36 (even) (Sir Walter St John's Grammar School) TQ 2676 6/7 18.3.83 II 2. Oldest part 1859 by Butterfield: asymmetrical 14th century Gothic-style having advanced 2-storey gabled bay and to south-east recessed 2-bay range of ground floor and half-dormers. Red brick with pale gault brick diaper, stone dressings and slate roof with crocket tiles. Gabled bay has, on ground floor, twin plate tracery windows. Above are bandcourse, recessed plaque with name of school, and cillband. From cillband, tripartite traceried window breaks into diaper of the gable. Recessed range has on ground floor a twin-arched entrance with inscription 'Rather deathe than false of faythe' and quatrefoil moulding, all within a pointed arch. Half-dormers on upper floor have twin cusped lancets, each with elaborate roundel above. Octagonal open wooden lantern with spire and weather vane rises from junction of gabled bay and recessed range. To north-west, 6-bay 15th Century Gothic-style extension of 2-storeys and dormers by A H Ryan Tennyson 1915 in red brick with stone dressings. Other sympathetic extensions to south-east 1925 and north-west 1938, not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TQ2689376621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206981
- 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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