St Peters Primary School, Mourne Drive, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3JL

This is a single-story primary school built in the 1960s on an elevated site within a housing estate. The building’s design represents an unusual departure from traditional school architecture. The plan is notable for its arrangement of mostly octagonal blocks radiating from a central, double-height octagonal assembly hall. The assembly hall roof is raised and visually distinctive, emphasizing its role as the school's central space. The front elevation faces southeast, overlooking the playground.

The assembly hall has a gable on each face and is abutted at ground floor level on three sides. Its front, rear, left, and right gables, and the exposed right cheek, are fully glazed. The roof over each gable is a folded octagon. Narrow, wrap-around corridors extend from the front of the assembly hall, connecting the front and rear sections of the school and linking each of the three front cheeks of the assembly hall to an octagonal satellite classroom. These smaller classrooms each have a shallow octagonal roof and three glazed cheeks facing outward. The left cheek corridor contains the main entrance, which has a plainly detailed hexagonal paved threshold. Behind the assembly hall is a central rectangular kitchen – used as the school's dining room – flanked on either side by conventional rectangular classroom blocks. These form a wider structure than the assembly hall and the three octagonal classrooms. The roofs are of plain aluminium, with flat surfaces for the corridors, kitchen, and classrooms, all featuring boxed eaves concealing rainwater goods. Plastic downpipes run along the soffits. A plain grey brick chimney rises from the kitchen block. The building’s walls are constructed of interlocking grey brick, emphasizing the octagonal corners. External doors are glazed timber, and windows are timber, typically comprising a pair of large fixed lights with plain painted linings, surmounted by fixed transoms and louvred transoms above. The gable windows in the assembly hall are fixed and feature five vertical panes, with the central pane being louvred.

St. Peter’s School was founded in 1848 and initially located in a building on St. Peter’s Street. This building was constructed around 1969. Following the completion of a new, conventional red-brick school on the same site in September 2000, the school will become co-educational and merge with Star of the Sea Primary School. The building is due for demolition in June 2000.