St Mark's School is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. School.
St Mark's School
- WRENN ID
- dusted-crypt-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Mark's School, Wallisdown Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 071 940
- Coordinates
- 50.74607, -1.89982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mark's School, formerly known as Talbot Village School, was built in 1862 by C C Creeke. It is a picturesque, though modernised, asymmetrical group designed in a buff brick Romanesque style, with some surviving lattice glazing. The entrance building is single-storey, featuring round-arched windows set under gables, with a cornice made of angle set and projecting bracketed bricks. Behind it is the main hall, which has a steep slate hipped roof and a stepped triplet of arched windows under a gable on the south side. There is a large hipped dormer with three arched lights in glazing bars, and full-height windows for classrooms located to the south and north-west. To the west is a projecting wing, which was the former school house, featuring numerous gabled round-arched dormer windows of varying sizes. At the back of the hall is a round-arched bellcote with a gable on kneelers. A small single-storey gable to the north-east includes a bull's eye window above a round-arched window. Modern wings have been added to the north and west. All the listed buildings on Wallisdown Road and Columbia Road form a group.
Local climate
St Mark's School receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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