Former St Lukes Church Of England Primary School (Camden Schools)

TQ3377 636-1/10/750 27/09/72

SOUTHWARK SUMNER ROAD (East side) No.161 Former St Luke's Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)

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Primary school, now community centre. 1845-7. Yellow brick with stone dressings; steeply pitched slate roofs (that to Junior School new, to replace former red tiles). T-plan. EXTERIOR: Infant school on Jowett Street: 1 storey and attic, 5 bays to Jowett Street. End arm projects to street under gable; to right is gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway. Stepped buttresses between mullioned and transomed windows; high quatrefoil window above 3 long windows (possibly later replacements) to projecting end gable. Hall inside with brace and collar-beam roof. Junior School on Sumner Road: 2 storeys and attic, 7 main bays. 6 gables with tilehanging and timber barge-boards, 2 projecting with 1st-floor oriels. Alternating block surrounds to doors with 3 mullioned lights above and 2- and 4-light windows with stone mullions (some with transoms); paired and tripled windows in gable end to Jowett Street have cusped, ogee-heads. Recessed extension at right of 2 storeys, 4 bays, has ground floor supported on cast-iron columns and 3 Tudor arches (now blocked up) with stone keys and imposts. Above, cusped, ogee-headed 3-light window flanked by similar 1-light windows; matching 3-light window to left. All windows with alternating stone block surrounds. INTERIOR: reputed to have a stepped classroom like a tiny lecture theatre inside, a very rare survival.

Listing NGR: TQ3389777200