1863 - St Marylebone School - Marylebone High Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.331 W 000° 09.092
30U E 697605 N 5711742
The building is on the north west side of Marylebone High Street to the north of the Memorial Garden of Rest.
Waymark Code: WMHX5Q
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/22/2013
Views: 3
The stone cornerstone, set into brickwork, is inscribed:
To the glory of God &
in memory of William
Benett Esquire these
schools were erected
by his daughter AD 1863
The building is Grade II listed with the entry at the
English Heritage website telling us:
School building. 1863 (foundation stone) . Red brick
with stone dressings and some patterned brickwork; slate roof. High
Victorian slightly "rogue" Gothic. 2 storeys and attic with 3 storey cross
wings. 7 bays wide. Asymmetrical cross wing side elevation to High Street
with 2 doorways with brick nogged tympana under semicircular relieving
arches and stone drips; irregular flat arched stone colonetted windows.
South front has prominent range of large gabled 2 storey half dormers with
colonette shafted lights in 2 tiers. North front has semicircular archways
on ground floor alternating with small square windows and 2-light
colonnetted 1st floor windows; stone corbel table below eaves and deep eaved
gabled dormers in roof. The ground floor internally is low and brick
vaulted.
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