SNN110818 - Historic building recording at the former Victoria Junior School, Wellingborough

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) carried out historic building recording of the former Victoria Junior School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The Junior School is one of three principal buildings of the former school which included the former Infants’ School and Schoolmaster’s house, though these are not the subject of this recording. The Junior School, which opened in 1895, is to a design by the architect Walter Talbot Brown of Talbot Brown and Fisher and is a good example of late 19th-century Victorian civic architecture. The building is in the Queen Anne revival style and rendered in red brick with stone dressings and comprises an amalgamation of classroom and entrance blocks surrounding a central double-height hall with a barrel vaulted ceiling. The hall retained a full complement of original panelling with matching cupboards and glazed screens to the classrooms.