Snaresbrook, Epping Forest
Post to the south - Snaresbrook
Post to the east - South Woodford
Post to the west - Walthamstow, Wood Street
Church Lane
Leytonstone train staff
mess room depot
Forest School. Part of it
is row of Georgian buildings. Oldest 1760 and probably built by Du Boulay as
first school house
School chapel 1867 with
Morris glass
Eighteenth century house
also part of the school to the east
Enclosure in the forest in
17th and eighteenth century, cottage built in eighteenth century,
school in 1834, Glass Historic Buildings,
College Place
Development on this fringe of Epping Forest began in the
17th when three rows of houses were built by Sir John Salter, a Lord
Mayor and chairman of
the East India Company. Paradise Row became College Place.
Forest School founded
in 1834 with twenty-two pupils as a private establishment for the sons of the
local gentry. Its cast-iron Neo-Grecian railings and gateposts with lions'
heads fit this date. However the , domestic scale hides the fact this
it now has many
students. In the centre is a mid-c18 house with a later smaller house. The
centre house has an c18 front hall; with a library behind for the school, a
sober room with three big windows. In 1863-5 it was lined with dark c17
panelling from the chapel of Jesus College Oxford – there was a friendship
between G.E. Street, restorer of the college chapel, the headmaster, Frederick
Barlow Guy, and William Morris.
Chapel. An informal quadrangle connected
by a cloister leads to the chapel, built 1857 with funding from William Cotton
and extended in 1875, by William White. with wood-work from Jesus College. The Guy family's Anglo-Catholic taste is
reflected by the refined angels designed by White, carved by Harry Hems. Other
furnishings were lost in the Second World War. But there are fragments and
copies of work by William Morris & Co., and a window by Powell & Sons
of Whitefriars, where the artists had sons at the school. There is a 1950s
window by Francis Skeat, Christ with two idealized schoolboys.
The Dining
Hall dates from 1886
by Richard Creed and although there were only fifty boys, it is on an Oxbridge
collegiate scale with a hammerbeam roof and a Morris
tapestry, the school banner of 1879, designed by Morris remains.
The Warden's
Lodgings Victorian
Former
infirmary, 1859, a
simple two-storey cottage.
Aston Building, a well-proportioned, functional
classroom block of 1951-3
Theatre, 1963-70 with Arup Associates its
concrete construction was once boldly exposed, but since muted by tile-cladding
in the 1990s. In the entrance lobby a window made up of fragments of medieval
glass - canopy, figure of a saint, grisaille leaves and vine scroll border -
from Howden Minster where F.B. Guy's father was rector.
Arts block with a bland Neo-Georgian facade,
c. 2000.
Sixth form
centre, polygonal
music centre, and sports hall of the 1970s
Junior School, incorporating a plain five-bay
c18 house,
Cricket
pavilion with
computer centre tucked beneath,
Girls' School, 1978-81, a cluster of hexagons,
by Tooley Foster Partnership.
Forest Rise
Pond was St Jacobs Water
built as part of Clock House grounds in 1790s
Holy Trinity Church top of
the hill.
Oakhurst Gardens
Enclosure of cottages
called Paradise Row or Hoggs Corner, Grant of Waste, house called Oakhurst
built there. School called Exeter College. Gardens built in 1934 and old house
demolished 1954. now Oakhurst Court.
Snaresbrook
Road
Snaresbrook House, now flats, white-stuccoed house in its own grounds. It looks early
c18 but
has been much altered.
Eagle Pond. Was previously called ‘Snares Pond’. Anglers. Trials for the stiffness of boats’ hulls by RSA after trying Peerless Pool - this was a bit bigger - in 1762, more wind and a longer run of 105 yards
St.Peter’s Avenue
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