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Latitude: 51.4779 / 51°28'40"N
Longitude: -0.0733 / 0°4'23"W
OS Eastings: 533897
OS Northings: 177200
OS Grid: TQ338772
Mapcode National: GBR WS.PC
Mapcode Global: VHGR6.P33V
Plus Code: 9C3XFWHG+5M
Entry Name: Former St Lukes Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)
Listing Date: 27 September 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385940
English Heritage Legacy ID: 471360
ID on this website: 101385940
Location: Peckham, Southwark, London, SE15
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Peckham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Camberwell St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ3377
636-1/10/750
27/09/72
SOUTHWARK
SUMNER ROAD
(East side)
No.161
Former St Luke's Church of England Primary School (Camden Schools)
II
Primary school, now community centre. 1845-7. Yellow brick
with stone dressings; steeply pitched slate roofs (that to
Junior School new, to replace former red tiles). T-plan.
EXTERIOR: Infant school on Jowett Street: 1 storey and attic,
5 bays to Jowett Street. End arm projects to street under
gable; to right is gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway.
Stepped buttresses between mullioned and transomed windows;
high quatrefoil window above 3 long windows (possibly later
replacements) to projecting end gable. Hall inside with brace
and collar-beam roof.
Junior School on Sumner Road: 2 storeys and attic, 7 main
bays. 6 gables with tilehanging and timber barge-boards, 2
projecting with 1st-floor oriels. Alternating block surrounds
to doors with 3 mullioned lights above and 2- and 4-light
windows with stone mullions (some with transoms); paired and
tripled windows in gable end to Jowett Street have cusped,
ogee-heads.
Recessed extension at right of 2 storeys, 4 bays, has ground
floor supported on cast-iron columns and 3 Tudor arches (now
blocked up) with stone keys and imposts. Above, cusped,
ogee-headed 3-light window flanked by similar 1-light windows;
matching 3-light window to left. All windows with alternating
stone block surrounds.
INTERIOR: reputed to have a stepped classroom like a tiny
lecture theatre inside, a very rare survival.
Listing NGR: TQ3389777200
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