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Latitude: 51.2971 / 51°17'49"N
Longitude: -0.3227 / 0°19'21"W
OS Eastings: 517038
OS Northings: 156663
OS Grid: TQ170566
Mapcode National: GBR 7J.1BG
Mapcode Global: VHGRV.CN8J
Plus Code: 9C3X7MWG+RW
Entry Name: Library at St John's School
Listing Date: 4 December 1980
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1028621
English Heritage Legacy ID: 290530
ID on this website: 101028621
Location: Leatherhead, Mole Valley, Surrey, KT22
County: Surrey
District: Mole Valley
Electoral Ward/Division: Leatherhead South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leatherhead
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey
Church of England Parish: Leatherhead
Church of England Diocese: Guildford
Tagged with: Library building
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
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