In 1851 a grand building was constructed to house the Lambeth Ragged Schools of almost 1,000 children: boys to the north and girls to the south. The architect is unknown but probably either William Rogers or Sir William Tite.
This shows the school (near the top left corner) before 1904 when the building was cut back by two-thirds to make way for additional railway tracks for the London and South Western Railway. The school probably moved out at that point. By 1994 the remaining building was being used by the London Fire Brigade. Since 1995 it has been occupied by Beaconsfield, an artist-run non-profit art space. It's on the west side of Newport Street, at the southern end.
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