Russell Hill Schools (Thomas More School For Boys), Main Building

1. 5009 TQ 36 SW 5/24

RUSSELL HILL Russell Hill Schools (Thomas More School for Boys), Main Building

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2. 1863, by John George Bland. Built as Royal Warehousemen's, Clerks's and Drapers's School. Large building in Venetian Gothic. Red brick with dressings of blue brick and Bath stone. Long asymmetrical front with an entrance block linked to wings of unequal length. Entrance block 3 storeys high and 3 bays wide, with projecting central bay rising to a gable in steeply pitched roof. Central doorway with triple moulded pointed arch flanked by triplets of windows with stilted arches and attached columns with floriated caps. First floor windows of similar pattern set under pointed relieving arches with a pierced roundel in tympana of arches on either side of central bay. Central window has stone balcony supported on brackets with decorate iron balustrade. Brick on edge ornament between ground and first and first and second floors. Windows of second floor have stilted square heads with pierced panel above. Wide eaves with ornamental soffit. Tall hipped slate roof with small square tower and pyramidal spirelet. The central block is linked by lower 2 storeyed blocks to 3 storey wings, with similar treatment. Variegated slate roofs with ornamental overhang. The left hand wing is 4 bays wide with one projecting off-centre bay, the right hand wing has 8 bays with 2 projecting bays. The return elevations continue the window pattern for one bay.

Listing NGR: TQ3108562169