Canon Barnett Primary School

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Canon Barnett Primary School mosaic
Commercial Street
Spitalfields
London, September 2015

“The School Board for London built this primary school as Commercial Street School in 1900–1. Designs in the latest and most evolved of the Board’s styles were prepared under the supervision of T. J. Bailey. The builders were Ebenezer Lawrance & Sons of the City Road. The site had been Black Horse Yard to the east and the John Bull brewery to the west. Until the Second World War the school was entered via a path from Commercial Street to its south side that had previously given access to the brewery. The school for 800 pupils, rectangular in plan and on four levels, was for infants, boys and girls, with a special section for physically disabled students. The main south elevation has large windows for halls and a top-floor blind arcade, flanked by turret- roofed stair towers set slightly forward. There were full-height outer classroom wings, east and west, principally lit from their return elevations. The north side backed onto St Jude’s National Schools.” (Canon Barnett Primary School, Survey of London)