Sir Walter St John'S Grammar School

The Sir Walter St John’s Grammar School building dates primarily from 1859, with later additions. The oldest part was designed by Butterfield in an asymmetrical 14th-century Gothic style. To the south-east is a recessed two-bay ground-floor range with half-dormers. The main part of the original building features a prominent two-storey gabled bay. The facade is constructed of red brick with pale gault brick diaper decoration, stone dressings, and a slate roof with crocket tiles. The gabled bay has twin plate tracery windows on the ground floor. Above these is a bandcourse, a recessed plaque displaying the school's name, and a cillband. A tripartite traceried window rises from the cillband, projecting into the diaper pattern of the gable. The recessed range contains a twin-arched entrance featuring an inscription reading 'Rather deathe than false of faythe' within a pointed arch, all decorated with quatrefoil moulding. The upper floor's half-dormers have twin cusped lancet windows, each with an elaborate roundel above. An octagonal open wooden lantern with a spire and weather vane rises from the junction of the gabled bay and the recessed range. A six-bay, 15th-century Gothic-style extension was added in 1915 by A H Ryan Tennyson, built in red brick with stone dressings. Further sympathetic extensions were added in 1925 and 1938, which are not considered to be of particular interest.