Greenside Primary School

Greenside Primary School
Greenside Primary School
Address
	Westville Road; Hammersmith; London, W12 9PT; England
Coordinates	51°30′13″N 0°14′15″W / 51.503475°N 0.237391°W
Information
Type	Academy
Local authority	Hammersmith and Fulham
Trust	The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust
Department for Education URN	141902 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Website	https://www.greensideschool.org/

Greenside Primary School is a coeducational primary school in Westville Road in Hammersmith, London, England.

Architecture

Greenside Primary School is a Grade II* listed building built in 1952 and designed by the internationally renowned architect Ernő Goldfinger.^[1]

Greenside Primary School (along with Brandlehow School) is one of the two only examples of pre-cast reinforced concrete frame with brick infill designed by Goldfinger after the Second World War with the objective of re-built schools in a functional, fast and economical manner.^[1]

The building has a fine top lit mural by artist Gordon Cullen that was restored in 2014.^[1]

History

The school is on the site of a Victorian Board School, built in 1886 to accommodate 1,200 children and offer a ‘serviceable education at very low fees.’ The old school was bombed in 1944, but fortunately the children had already been evacuated.

The current building was opened in 1952, originally named Westville Road School. In 1987 it was renamed Greenside School.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Various (2017). 25 years of Open House London Golgonooza. Open City. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9780956945082.

Bibliography

Warburton, Nigel. Ernő Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect (Routledge, 2004) ISBN 0-415-25853-7.

External links

Gallery

View of the school
Partial view of the mural by Gordon Cullen
Partial view of the mural by Gordon Cullen
View of one of the facades of the school
View of the school
View of the school

[OH-1] Various (2017). 25 years of Open House London Golgonooza. Open City. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9780956945082.

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