South London Art Gallery
SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY, 61, 63 AND 65, PECKHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385776
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- South London Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY, 61, 63 AND 65, PECKHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385776
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- South London Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY, 61, 63 AND 65, PECKHAM 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:
- SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY, 61, 63 AND 65, PECKHAM ROAD
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:
- TQ3344576764
Details
TQ3376
636-1/11/588
27/09/72
SOUTHWARK
PECKHAM ROAD
(North side)
Nos.61, 63 AND 65 South London Art Gallery
(Formerly Listed as:
PECKHAM ROAD
(North side)
Nos.61-65 (Odd)
Camberwell School of Art and South London Art Gallery)
GV
II
Art school and gallery. 1896-8 (inscribed 1897). By Maurice
Adams. Red brick with plentiful white stone dressings,
bandings and sculptured ornament; slate roof behind
break-front parapet with ball finials, which ties together
horizontally the exuberant, Baroque-detailed frontage of 3
storeys and basement.
EXTERIOR: left section of 5 bays with emphasis on end gabled
bay. Right section of 6 bays with emphasis on projecting 2nd
bay from right (South London Art Gallery entrance). Between
the 2 sections is the wide main (School of Arts) entrance bay,
projecting to full height and mainly of stone, with entrance
under semicircular hood on large caryatids. At parapet level,
supported by 3 Caryatids, deep segmental pediment under gable,
both with carved ornament. Windows mullioned and transomed
both to centre and curving sides of bay.
Second entrance (in right section) is round-arched with
keystone, incorporated into slightly projecting mostly stone
bay which rises to full height with low, sculptured gable over
deep modillion cornice; datestone in raised stone parapet
behind. Broken segmental pediment above 1st-floor windows with
mullions. Scrolled plaque above entrance: "THE PASSMORE
EDWARDS SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE".
Both sections of the building are similarly detailed. Small
ground-floor windows (those in left section circular) within
round-headed stone arches with keystones. Pilasters with masks
beneath rise from ground-floor break-front cornice through 1st
and 2nd floors, between sash windows with moulded stone
architraves, those on 2nd floor taller. Cornice above 1st
floor curves up above windows, that above 2nd floor rises to
points above windows and incorporates masks into pilaster
tops. Various banded chimneys and small cupola with ogee roof
in ridge above main entrance.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3344576764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471188
- 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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