Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685SW FROGNAL
798-1/37/535 (East side)
14/05/74 University College School

GV II

Public school. 1906-7. By Arnold Mitchell, built by Dove
Brothers; much of main block destroyed by fire 1978 but
restored virtually in facsimile by Michael Foster. Brown brick
with stone dressings; rusticated red brick and stone
pilasters. Slated hipped roof over central block with central
copper domed lantern flanked by stone cupolas at base of hips.
STYLE: Edwardian Baroque.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical design with 2 storey centre and flanking
blocks linked by peristyles. Central block, 12 window centre
plus 1 window recessed end bays; wings with 7 and 8 windows.
Main entrance of 7 windows and ground floor colonnade flanked
by rusticated pilasters with carved cartouche capitals.
Central round-arched entrance with attached columns supporting
elaborately carved broken scrolled pediment with festoons and
central cartouche; part-glazed panelled double doors. Above
this a carved statue of Edward VII in an elaborate aedicule
with carved feature above. Grouped architraved sashes with
cornices, central windows ground floor with segmental
pediments, 1st floor have triangular pediments with keystones.
Parapet. The pilasters to the central block originally
terminated in tall similarly rusticated chimneys.
Wings have pilastered outer bays supporting broken pediments
with carved cartouches above 1st floor sashes with broken
pediments and keystones and ground floor windows with broken
segmental pediments and keystones. Inner bays have ground
floor sashes with keystones in broken pediments and upper
floor oculi set in carved festoons, the drops linking to
pediments beneath. Cornice and parapets.
INTERIOR: has main hall with barrel-vaulted moulded plaster
ceiling having Diocletian windows and wooden panelled walls
with continuous 1st floor galley. The River Westbourne flows
under the school in a specially built crypt.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the pilasters to the central block originally
terminated in tall similarly rusticated chimneys.

Listing NGR: TQ2620285414

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• University College School at Wikipedia
• University College School official website
• Wikidata Q7894634

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)