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Latitude: 51.5211 / 51°31'16"N
Longitude: -0.1558 / 0°9'20"W
OS Eastings: 528048
OS Northings: 181857
OS Grid: TQ280818
Mapcode National: GBR 98.6W
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.8107
Plus Code: 9C3XGRCV+CM
Entry Name: 78, Chiltern Street
Listing Date: 10 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250984
English Heritage Legacy ID: 433545
ID on this website: 101250984
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1U
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Marylebone
Church of England Diocese: London
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TQ 2881 NW CHILTERN STREET
(west side)
1900-/44/10045 No. 78
II
Former school to the Portman Chapel, now flats, workrooms and library. 1859 by Christopher
Eales, minor alterations 1880s. Red brick with concrete floors and iron girders spanning the
ceilings, slate roof. A carefully thought-out plan to provide maximum separation between girls
and boys on a tiny site. Three-storey houses for the schoolmaster and mistress (now flats) face
the street, entered under archways: that to left for boys, leading via open tiled stairwell to
schoolroom on second floor; that to right leading to yard, formerly with open colonnade,
infilled in the 1880s by the Henson brothers. Classrooms at rear and over courtyard, in L-shape
of four storeys, with separate floors for infants, girls and boys in ascending order. On top floor
an assembly hall shared by all the children, with timber kingpost and hammerbeam roof of
unusually chunky construction.
Included as an early surviving example of a church school in a city centre, obtaining a
maximum of accommodation on a small site by use of features later adopted by the London
School Board.
Source: The Builder, 12 November 1859.
Listing NGR: TQ2804881857
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