1891 – Colfe Grammar School, Lewisham, London
The school was badly damaged in 1944,
The school was badly damaged in 1944,
Unsuccessful design in architectural competition to design vast museum.
The Battersea Polytechnic Institute was founded in 1891 and admitted its first students in 1894.
Fine Queen Anne style house on a narrow plot which forces the design upwards with a lovely continuous bay on the lower floors.
Interior View towards Altar published in The Builder,
Part of an attractive row of Queen Anne style commercial premises.
Built in a Flemish Renaissance style for the London School Board in 1890 by architect T.J.
The initial design, illustrated, was by James Brooks.
The Building News felt that the view seemed conjured “up in the mind the ruins of some stately edifice in the Venetian Lagoons: the dark and massive features appear to rise out of a wet shiny pavement or lake.