Description

BATTERSEA HIGH STREET
1.
5033
Nos 28-36 (even)
(Sir Walter St John's
Grammar School)
TQ 2676 6/7 18.3.83
II
2.
Oldest part 1859 by Butterfield: asymmetrical 14th century Gothic-style having
advanced 2-storey gabled bay and to south-east recessed 2-bay range of ground floor
and half-dormers.
Red brick with pale gault brick diaper, stone dressings and slate roof with crocket
tiles.
Gabled bay has, on ground floor, twin plate tracery windows. Above are bandcourse,
recessed plaque with name of school, and cillband. From cillband, tripartite
traceried window breaks into diaper of the gable.
Recessed range has on ground floor a twin-arched entrance with inscription
'Rather deathe than false of faythe' and quatrefoil moulding, all within a pointed
arch. Half-dormers on upper floor have twin cusped lancets, each with elaborate
roundel above.
Octagonal open wooden lantern with spire and weather vane rises from junction of
gabled bay and recessed range.
To north-west, 6-bay 15th Century Gothic-style extension of 2-storeys and dormers
by A H Ryan Tennyson 1915 in red brick with stone dressings.
Other sympathetic extensions to south-east 1925 and north-west 1938, not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: TQ2689376621

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q99937491

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper