Library At St John'S School

LEATHERHEAD EPSOM ROAD TQ/15/NE (north side) 3/133

4.12.80 Library at St John's School

GV II

School chapel, now library. Dated 1876 at west end; altered internally. Flint with sandstone dressings, red tile roof. Nave with apsidal chancel, south porch and south vestry. Gothic style. The 5-bay nave has a plinth, buttresses and 2-centred arched openings with hoodmoulds; on the south side the 1st bay has a gabled porch with outer doorway moulded in 2 orders, the 5th bay has a gabled vestry with stone pinnacles flanking the gable, which contains a geometrical rose window, and the other bays have 2-light windows with plate tracery; the north side has a doorway to the 1st bay and similar windows in the other bays. The west gable wall has a large 4-light west window with bar tracery, a small quatrefoil near the apex, and a stone plaque mounted over the centre of the plinth, inscribed: IN NO MINE DOMINI HVNC LAPIDEM POSVIT EDVARDVS HAROLDVS EPISCOP WINTON MDCCCLXXVI At the east end, the chancel has three similar 2-light windows but with central shafts which have stiff-leaf capitals. Interior: wallshafts to a roof structure which is now concealed by an inserted ceiling; otherwise, not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ1703856663