Description

CAMDEN

TQ3081NW OLD GLOUCESTER STREET
798-1/100/1750 (East side)
No.24

GV II

Formerly known as: St George the Martyr Girls and Infants
School OLD GLOUCESTER STREET.
Girls' infants school, now private residence. 1863-4. By SS
Teulon. Stock brick with yellow brick and stone dressings,
slate roof. Early Gothic style.
3 storeys, front to Old Gloucester Street, return to Gage
Street. Irregular composition adhering to street line. Ground
storey with door at north end and lancet openings with
forceful continuous stone mullions to windows. First-floor
windows with pointed brick relieving arches. Top storey with
tall arched windows, some with geometrical tracery. Gables and
external chimneybreasts and chimneys, now slightly simplified.
Entrance at north end with fanlight under pointed arch.
INTERIOR altered, but with teaching spaces essentially
surviving. On angle with biblical quotation and date 1863.
Characteristic school building by Teulon, which forms a strong
group with No.25 the boys school (qv) and St George the Martyr
church, Queen Square (qv), the latter altered by Teulon.
(The Builder: 29 October 1864).

Listing NGR: TQ3041281869

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084315

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)