St Johns Hall

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/3/618 (East side) St John's Hall

GV II

St John's Infant School, now used as a hall for St John's Church (qv). 1842, with later extensions. By William Ranger (1800-1863). In white brick with stone dressings; slate roofs with ornate red ridge tiles. EXTERIOR: single storey, with the interior open to the roof; designed in a version of Victorian Early English style; irregular form. All the original windows are narrow, single-light and pointed-headed with arched stone hood-moulds, except on the west gable, where a 3-light window has a heavy version of plate tracery, with a 4-centred hood-mould over and a circular window in the same style in the apex of the gable. On the left, an entrance within an ornate gabled porch. A rear range, facing west, has flat pilasters between the windows and a gabled porch with an ornate stone doorway, 3 windows above it and one at each side at a lower level. On the south side are 2 similar, but not identical gables, that on the south west part of a later range which infills the angle between the original south and west ranges. This has 3 lancet-type windows in the gable end and a circular window with radiating glazing-bars in the apex; along the west side are paired lancets and a brick dentil cornice. INTERIOR: contains its original pointed doors and doorways; open timber roofs survive in part of the building.

Listing NGR: TL8526164652