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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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385940
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-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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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385940
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-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

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:: 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

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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.