Walthamstowe
Billett Road
Later Warner housing in this area was laid out to conform with the UDC's town-planning scheme of 1912: between Pennant Terrace and Billet Road winding roads of garden suburb type appear in place of a straight grid of streets, and the details of the house facades become simpler
McEntee County School. 1957. Had been South West Essex Tech in Hoe Street. Younger pupils moved into this a long three-storey curtain-walled range.
144 City Learning Centre, By Austin-Smith Lord, 2001. A cheerful, eye-catching structure,
mostly timber-clad, on an ingeniously compact plan. Two interlocking polygons,
each with a red monopitch-roofed drum rising above shallow sloping roofs. Teaching rooms of
different sizes radiate around the drums. It stands in front of Mcentee
Technical School,
Roger Ascham School, 1929 by Walthamstow Urban District Council. Old-fashioned brick
porch with Baroque pediment to the name plaque above, half-timbered gable
behind, with bellcote. The layout is more innovative: two wings in a Y-formation, their
big gabled windows facing the playground.
Brookscroft Road
Spruce Hill Baptist Church. Originally an iron church new one built in 1911
Spruce Hill: Methodist Church site now shops
Telephone Exchange, Office of Works Baroque; stone aedicules to some of the first-floor
windows. Altered top
floor
Casenove Road
William Fitt secondary modern school 1962
Chapel End
Manor of Walthamstow Sarum of 1303. Became Chapel End after 1430s when William
Tyrwhitt founded a chapel here next to Salisbury Hall and dedicated to Edward
the Confessor. Ruined by 1650. 1830 new
chapel built by Vuillamy was dedicated to St.John. Marked thus on the
Ordnance Survey map of 1805, earlier ‘Le Chapellende’ 1528, that is 'the part
of the parish near the chapel', from Middle English ‘chapel’ and ‘ende’, with
reference to Higham Chapel 1521, one of the two chapels once belonging to the
manor of Higham., 'district by a chapel', the site of one of the two chapels of
the manor of Higham Bensted in Walthamstow ‘Higham Chapel’ 1521, ‘Le
Chapellende’ 152
Higham Hill Sewer rose here, going to Dagenham brook. Diverted for the flood relief channel
Chingford Road
Bus garage tramway offices. Exuberant freestyle with much terracotta, c. 1905, when Walthamstow District Council began its electric tramway system. The sheds behind replaced by housing.
St. John’s Church, 1923, replacing earlier one, which fell down, one bit built later
because of shortage of cash. 1924-6 by H.E Burke-Downing, replacing a chapel of
ease of 1829 by Vulliamy. Decent reticent Gothic in the Bodley tradition; brown
brick, three bays of aisle windows with Decorated tracery
below gables. Completed 1960-1 by John Phillips with a simpler bay with rose
window and five lancets under a deep arch. Drastically altered 1996 by John
Goldsmith when a worship area was made above an inserted floor in the nave.
Here the upper parts of the arcades are visible, with c14-style dying arches
and a ceiled open roof. The chancel, stripped and divided off at the same time,
retains an elaborate Dec window, carved hood-moulds and plaster ceiling with
angels, Lady Chapel; organ chamber and vestry with octagonal turret.
Church hall 1916 by G.D. Hamilton.
Christ the King, RC church, 1932
Essex Hall site
Forest school, 1834
2 Fanfare Book Centre
Sir George Monoux College, Long red brick front of 1927 by Essex County Council with stone frontispiece and Jacobethan trimmings; a characteristic grammar school type of between the wars. Its style alludes to the c16 origins of the school, founded by Sir George Monoux. It became a comprehensive in 1968, a Sixth Form College from 1986, and had c. 1,500 students in 2001. Central barrel-vaulted assembly hall, now library. Classrooms around two courtyards, one with War Memorial of 1949, completed 1933 by a rear block with gym and laboratories. Later extensions behind, rationalized by the addition of The Centre, by van Heyningen & Howard, 1990, a neat square block with canteen and common room on the ground floor, with conservatory extension of 2000 overlooking a new courtyard. The upper floor has a conference room added 1997, an attractive clerestory-lit space beneath a steeply pitched open roof. Additions further by APT 2001-3. Old grammar school foundation with a chequered history
Kitchener Road
Wadham Lodge sports ground lodge given to Mallinson for the Methodist church
Lloyd park
Homestead moat in recreation grounds. Moat inside two fishponds. This was the grounds of a moated house called Cricklewoods. A perimeter walk remains around the moat, which is crossed by a c19 rustic iron footbridge.
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