Library at St John's School is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1980. A Victorian School chapel/library. 35 related planning applications.
Library at St John's School
- WRENN ID
- hollow-plaster-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1980
- Type
- School chapel/library
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Library at St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 170 566
- Coordinates
- 51.29707, -0.32269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Library at St John's School, originally a school chapel, was built in 1876 and has been altered internally. It is constructed of flint with sandstone dressings and features a red tile roof. The building is designed in a Gothic style and consists of a nave with an apsidal chancel, a south porch, and a south vestry. The nave has five bays, with a plinth, buttresses, and two-centred arched openings that include hoodmoulds. On the south side, the first bay features a gabled porch with an outer doorway moulded in two orders, while the fifth bay has a gabled vestry adorned with stone pinnacles and a geometrical rose window. The other bays have two-light windows with plate tracery. The north side includes a doorway in the first bay and similar windows in the remaining bays. The west gable wall is notable for a large four-light west window with bar tracery and a small quatrefoil near the apex. Above the centre of the plinth, there is a stone plaque inscribed: IN NO MINE DOMINI HVNC LAPIDEM POSVIT EDVARDVS HAROLDVS EPISCOP WINTON MDCCCLXXVI. At the east end, the chancel has three similar two-light windows with central shafts that feature stiff-leaf capitals. Inside, there are wallshafts supporting a roof structure that is now concealed by an inserted ceiling; otherwise, the interior is not of special interest.
Local climate
Library at St John's School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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