Description

RUSSELL STREET
1.
5123 Former Chapel
Langley School
TL 0820 3/6
II

2.
Large and impressive Board School built in 1880 on corner site. Luton grey
brick with lighter red brick dressings, Welsh slate roof. Long elevation
to Russell Street has central break in building line. Left hand block has
central projecting gable with further gable on its right. Right hand block
has same central projecting gable with further gables on either side. Apsidal
wing facing Chapel Street making L-plan building. Rear wing has apsidal projection.
Rear elevation of main block has 2 projecting gabled wings and one apsidal
wing. Moulded brick eaves throughout with frieze of lozenges. Windows are
all pointed arched sashes with red brick heads and stone drip moulds. Gable
ends have compositions of three or four windows with roundel above. The roundel
is set in a red brick and stone arch with the typanum decorated with a moulded
terracotta scallop pattern.

Listing NGR: TL0889920715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408420

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)