Walsingham School

BROOMWOOD ROAD SW11 1. 5033 Walsingham School TQ 27SE 4/11 TQ 2874 13/11 II 2. Designed 1907 as the LCC Clapham Secondary School for Girls under the supervision of T J Bailey, Schools Architect. It is of 4-storeys in red brick with stone dressings and tiled roof and is of complex symmetrical form on the entrance elevation. This has a 6-bay centre enclosed by wings which are fronted with 2-storey blocks. The blocks rise into round towers having domes surmounted by open octagonal domed lanterns with needle finials. A canted porch fills the angle between the centre and each wing. It is framed by piers with clasping buttresses and has an applied segmental doorcase on corbelled columns. A prominent cornice-band separates the second floor from a high attic with elaborately glazed sashes and crowning cornice to the 4 centre bays. The main roof is finished with a complex square lantern. Canted bows with pyramidal roofs separate the entrance elevation from recessed 6-bay return elevations which have round-headed ground floor windows within radially rusticated heads. Corbelled chimney breasts set laterally on the entrance elevation rise into tall stacks.

Listing NGR: TQ2798274495