Description

HOXTON SQUARE
TQ 3382
(north side)
735-/35/10017 Academy Fitness Centre
(fomerly St. Monica's
School)
GV II

Former school, now fitness centre, c.1865-70 as part of the Augustinian Fathers' Mission centre
in Hoxton. Stock brick with red brick bands and some stone dressings; flat roof set behind
railings originally serving as playground. Square plan with three storeys, one each for boys (who
have their own entrance), girls and infants. Central composition divided in half by projecting
buttress ending in black brick cross and surmounted by a narrow gable hoisted between the
piers of the rooftop railings. Each half a symmetrical composition with central, tall two-light
casement windows flanked by single, tall casements, all with round heads; those to lower floors
with gauged brickwork over, those to second floor with rendered tympanums over the larger
windows. Projecting cast-iron downpipes with hopper heads at ends of composition balance the
central buttress. Entrance doors under porches supported on heavy timber consoles.

Listing NGR: TQ3317082779

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545188

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)