19,19A AND 20, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1

TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 101/8 24.2.58 (ABBEY PRECINCT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) Nos. 19, 19A and 20.

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School houses. Range of Abbey buildings of late C.14 and C.15 origin incorporating part of the Cellarer's Building (c.f. The Great Cloisters), the Abbey Guest House and the remains of the Blackstole Tower, taken over and extended by the school in the C.15 and C.16, with C.17/C.18 alterations and additions. Stone rubble with C.18 brickwork to 2nd floor; leaded and tiled roofs, 3 storeys of irregular height. 6 window range (No. 19), including Blackstole Tower, followed by irregularly fenestrated 4-window range (No. 20). The archway under Blackstole Tower to left is late C.14 with carved spandrels to arch, and tierceron-vaulted passage behind leading to No. 19A. No. 20 has a later C.18 Gothick doorway to right, adjoining Blackstole Tower, with fanlight and side lights and drip mould-cornice over. No. 19 has recessed glazing bar sashes in stucco reveals and 2-light stone mullioned window to 3rd floor above doorway. No. 20 has small Gothic lights irregularly grouped to ground floor; glazing bar sashes and a 3-light, stone mullioned, cusped headed window to upper floors. Brick parapet partly crenellated. The rear has late C.17 and C.18 brick additions with 2 three-storey fronts tangented to the Little Dean's elevation of the tower and archway of No. 18, the adjoining single bay front with a Venetian window to the 1st floor and the further 3-bay front with recessed sashes under flat gauged arches, both with pedimented doorways. Inside No. 20 contains the remains of the Cellarer's Building and Abbey Guest House with a tierceron-vaulted ground floor with wall shafts and remains of some original windows in east wall. On the 1st floor a late C.14 flat pitched roof with tie beams partially survives, etc. See also under Great Cloisters.

R.C.H.M Westminster School; L.E. Tanner.

Listing NGR: TQ3001479397