St Mark's Infant School
St Mark's Infant School, Battersea Rise
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1389136
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-2001
- Statutory Address:
- St Mark's Infant School, Battersea Rise
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1389136
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-2001
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Mark's Infant School, Battersea Rise
Location
- Statutory Address:
- St Mark's Infant School, Battersea Rise
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 27244 75094
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 July 2022 to correct spelling of architect, remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
TQ2775
1207/9/10120
BATTERSEA RISE (North side)
St Mark's Infant School
23-JAN-01
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II
Church elementary school. 1866-7 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey, at the expense of Philip Cazenove on land donated by Earl Spencer, Lord of the Manor. Stock brick with red brick bands, tiled half-hipped roof, with large polygonal stacks set in angle and at rear. Irregular plan on site apex site. Single storey. Roof projects over dentiled eaves. Large timber casement windows with square panes to schoolroom in end walls project into gable, and are set within polychromatic pointed recesses. One of these, to road, is inscribed `ST MARK'S SCHOOL 1866'. Windows in rear elevations renewed. Doors in projecting porches, one within pointed arch, one renewed.
Interior not inspected but noted to contain single large school room with open timber roof, into which a suspended ceiling of no interest has been included.
St Mark's School is a rare and little altered example of a diminutive church school in London, whose building coincides with the development of Clapham Junction in the 1860s. Benjamin Ferrey was among the leading church architects of his day and he may have supposed that the subsequent commission for St Mark's Church, which the school adjoins, may have come his way. Instead it went to William White, a slightly younger and more radical architect in the Gothic style and the two buildings form a fine group.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486730
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 9 February, (1867)
Other
Cole, Emily , Historical Analysis and Research Team, Reports and Papers number 42, (2000)
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