All Souls' Church Day School

TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER FOLEY STREET, Wl 46/11 All Souls' Church 10.9.54 Day School - II School. 1908 by A. Beresford-Pite. Stock brick with purple brick in bands and in diaper . Austere but typically distinctive Beresford-Pite building. 3 tall storeys and basement, flat roof. Essentially a 3 x 3 x 3 bay composition. The outer tripartite bays with segmental arched glazing bar sashes recessed in giant very narrow arcade flush with wall plane. The broader tripartite centrepiece has wide semicircular ground floor windows with stepped reveals, segmental arched 1st floor and flat arched 2nd floor windows recessed in giant pilaster order slightly in antis of wall plane, the pilasters having free Neo-grec Ionic capitals of carved stone that support a dentil frieze which also serves as the lintel of the 2nd floor windows. Panelled parapet with stone coping. Good Free Style cast iron area railings and gates. Side entrance. Rear elevation has a simpler giant arcade treatment.

Listing NGR: TQ2924281745