Building    From 1877 

St George the Martyr School

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This school started on two floors of the Church’s Vestry House in Cosmo Place. It was then housed in two nearby purpose-built properties, both now listed, and both now thought to be private residential. The street was just ‘Gloucester Street’ until 1873.

24, Old Gloucester Road (east side), Listing
St George the Martyr Girls and Infants School. Built 1863-4, by S. S. Teulon, in an early Gothic style. The building is now marked as "Lundonia House" and has housed the October Gallery since 1979.

25, Old Gloucester Road (west side), Listing
St George the Martyr Boys School. Built 1877-8, by J. and S. Flint Clarkson in an early Gothic style comparable with No.24. Later rear extension. The stone above the front door arched fanlight reads "St. George the Martyr Parochial School", and that immediately above the door "Boys". Up on the roof you can see the fence which made a roof-top playground work.

We don't know when the schools closed.  Certainly after 1932 since Alamy have a photo captioned "The bishop of London opened the new Hall of the St George the Martyr Schools, in Old Gloucester Road, London. Photo shows, the Bishop of London among the schoolboys after opening the new hall. 27 January 1932".

2023: John Prevett helpfully wrote: "I attended the infants school in 1953/1954, my first year at school. I suspect that the schools closed when the new St George the Martyr school in John's Mews opened in 1976. {WC1, a few streets to the east}."

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St George the Martyr School

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