WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK)

WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK), CHAMPION PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378472
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK)
Statutory Address:: WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK), CHAMPION PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378472
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK)
Statutory Address 1:: WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK), CHAMPION PARK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WILLIAM BOOTH MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK), CHAMPION PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32911 75987

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3276 CHAMPION PARK 636-1/11/201 (South side) 27/09/72 William Booth Memorial Training College (main block) (Formerly Listed as: CHAMPION PARK William Booth Memorial Training College (Central block))

GV II

Central block of training establishment. 1932. By Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Brown brick with stone dressings; low pitched, hipped tiled roofs to towers, the central one with a timber and brick eaves cornice; parapets to other parts. Stone capped high plinth. PLAN: long, 4-storey block with projecting 2-storey wings at either end, massive central tower and short end towers. EXTERIOR: entrance is approached by wide steps with stone torchieres at outer angles and is flanked by buttresses which merge into wall above 2nd floor. Wide, moulded stone arch to recessed double doors flanked by windows and with decorative pedimental treatment above initials "WB". Central 3 entrance bays project as part of tower, flanked by buttresses which merge into wall above 2nd floor, and with 3 square-headed windows on each floor. Similar windows to rest of block, except on 4th floor, where they are 2-light and round-headed, with Perpendicular-type tracery. Buttresses between ground-floor windows, which are slightly set back under receding astragal mouldings. Central tower has, at uppermost stage, four 2-light openings with stone, modified Perpendicular blank tracery above. Below this 3 very long, round-arched bell openings with pilaster strips between; and beneath each of these, double round-headed blank arches tapering down to blank wall below. Side wings are blank on street front but have 2 windows on each floor on inner return. Added block on inner corner of right wing with stairway leading up to mezzanine level entrance. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3291175987

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Legacy System number:: 470773
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.