Former St Lukes Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)
FORMER ST LUKES CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL (CAMDEN SCHOOLS), 161, SUMNER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385940
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Lukes Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ST LUKES CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL (CAMDEN SCHOOLS), 161, SUMNER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385940
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Lukes Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ST LUKES CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL (CAMDEN SCHOOLS), 161, SUMNER 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:
- FORMER ST LUKES CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL (CAMDEN SCHOOLS), 161, SUMNER 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:
- TQ3389777200
Details
TQ3377
636-1/10/750
27/09/72
SOUTHWARK
SUMNER ROAD
(East side)
No.161
Former St Luke's Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)
II
Primary school, now community centre. 1845-7. Yellow brick
with stone dressings; steeply pitched slate roofs (that to
Junior School new, to replace former red tiles). T-plan.
EXTERIOR: Infant school on Jowett Street: 1 storey and attic,
5 bays to Jowett Street. End arm projects to street under
gable; to right is gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway.
Stepped buttresses between mullioned and transomed windows;
high quatrefoil window above 3 long windows (possibly later
replacements) to projecting end gable. Hall inside with brace
and collar-beam roof.
Junior School on Sumner Road: 2 storeys and attic, 7 main
bays. 6 gables with tilehanging and timber barge-boards, 2
projecting with 1st-floor oriels. Alternating block surrounds
to doors with 3 mullioned lights above and 2- and 4-light
windows with stone mullions (some with transoms); paired and
tripled windows in gable end to Jowett Street have cusped,
ogee-heads.
Recessed extension at right of 2 storeys, 4 bays, has ground
floor supported on cast-iron columns and 3 Tudor arches (now
blocked up) with stone keys and imposts. Above, cusped,
ogee-headed 3-light window flanked by similar 1-light windows;
matching 3-light window to left. All windows with alternating
stone block surrounds.
INTERIOR: reputed to have a stepped classroom like a tiny
lecture theatre inside, a very rare survival.
Listing NGR: TQ3389777200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471360
- 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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