Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3276 WILSON ROAD
636-1/11/864 (East side)
27/09/72 Camberwell College of Arts and gate
piers at entrance
(Formerly Listed as:
WILSON ROAD
(South side)
Wilson's Grammar School)

II

Grammar school, now college of arts. Dated 1882. By ER Robson,
architect. Red brick with stone dressings and bandings; high
pitched slate roof with moulded stone eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: north elevation: 2 storeys with attic over east
wing. Irregular frontage with recessed 6-bay section with
central gable, between outer gabled wings. Right of centre
section small entrance link under gable. Stone 4-centred arch
with carved spandrels to door; plaque over: "Grammar School
founded by Edward Wilson, Vicar of Camberwell, AD1615. Rebuilt
AD 1882". Fenestration of varying sizes with stone lintels and
sills continued as bands and triangular pilaster strips with
stone copings and stops between. 2 terracotta panels with
coats of arms at 1st floor of left wing. Projecting octagonal
staircase turret in angle between recessed section and right
gabled wing. Stone plinth. Small cupola over centre of roof
ridge.
West elevation: 2 storeys with attic to right section, 13
irregular bays. Similarly detailed to north frontage. Left
section of 6 windows with central gable. Pilaster strips
rising to triangular pilaster strips at 1st floor between tall
bipartite and tripartite windows. Right section, which has
attic behind parapet and small gabled bay at end, has
triangular buttress strips rising above parapet as pedestals,
each supporting a shielded griffin. Centre 1-bay, slightly
projecting gabled entrance section. Stone doorpiece has Ionic
pilasters, entablature with pulvinated frieze and broken
segmental pediment containing coat of arms. Perpendicular
canted bay window above. Stone plinth. Large stepped chimney
stack to right of central fleche.
Square crenellated tower feature of 3 storeys is incorporated
into east elevation.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stone entrance piers with urns.

Listing NGR: TQ3303876609

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665807

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)