William Booth Memorial Training College (Main Block)

The William Booth Memorial Training College's main block, built in 1932 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a central block of a training establishment located in Southwark. The building is constructed of brown brick with stone dressings and features low pitched, hipped tiled roofs on the towers, with the central tower having a timber and brick eaves cornice and parapets on other sections. It has a high stone-capped plinth.

The structure is a long, four-storey block with projecting two-storey wings at both ends, a massive central tower, and shorter end towers. The entrance is accessed via wide steps that have stone torchieres at the outer angles and is flanked by buttresses that merge into the wall above the second floor. The entrance features a wide, moulded stone arch leading to recessed double doors, which are flanked by windows and topped with a decorative pediment that displays the initials "WB".

The central three entrance bays project as part of the tower and are flanked by buttresses that also merge into the wall above the second floor. Each of these bays has three square-headed windows on each floor. The other windows on the block are similar, except for those on the fourth floor, which are two-light and round-headed with Perpendicular-type tracery. The buttresses between the ground-floor windows are slightly set back under receding astragal mouldings.

The central tower features, at its uppermost stage, four two-light openings with modified Perpendicular blank tracery above. Below this are three very long, round-arched bell openings separated by pilaster strips, with double round-headed blank arches tapering down to a blank wall below. The side wings are blank on the street front but have two windows on each floor on the inner return. An added block on the inner corner of the right wing includes a stairway leading up to a mezzanine level entrance. The interior has not been inspected.