All places in the category "Education"

100-136 Cavell Street

1915–16, former clothing factory. built for S. Schneiders & Son, converted 1989–90 to form 19 mixed-use units

Zetland House

1963–4, warehouse on the site of the Jews' Orphan Asylum, built 1846

7-8 Davenant Street

1797-8 sugarhouse, reduced in height in 1848, reconstructed and raised in 1894-5 and 1901, converted 2007-8, demolished 2020

Car park at 8-10 Old Montague Street, with building behind the Nag's Head, 17-19 Whitechapel Road

Building at south end of car park is close to the site of 1960s day nursery for employees at clothing factory at 12-20 Osborn Street

Shapla Primary School

1985-7, primary school

Wapping High School

Corner block clad with pre-fabricated panels and glass, c.1970s.

Nagpal House, site of George Yard Ragged School

2006-7 offices with flats above, on site of George Yard Ragged School

The Whitechapel Centre

1905, school built for the London County Council

Madani Girls' School

1905, built as Myrdle Street School

Ebrahim College, 80 Greenfield Road

1960s workshop, now in college use

Shapla Primary School

c.1990s, portakabin classroom north-east of Shapla Primary School

Maedah Grill, 42 Fieldgate Street (with 100 Greenfield Road)

1981–2, garment factory, converted to offices, now with restaurant and Qurtubah Institute

Swarthmore College

late 20th century workshops, now college

Altitude Point

2011-14, flats, offices and shops for Barratt Homes, on a site that included a workhouse, chapel/synagogue and the Jews' Infants' School

Garrod Building

The London Hospital Medical College moved to this site in 1854. The building was rebuilt and enlarged in 1886–7 and 1898–9 by Rowland Plumbe

189 Whitechapel Road

1900 as a mission hall for the Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel, William Alfred Pite, architect

183-185 Whitechapel Road, Jagonari Centre (rear wing)

1984-7, Women's Educational Resource Centre, Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, architects, creche wing to rear

Former Jagonari Women's Centre, 183-185 Whitechapel Road

1984-7, Women's Educational Resource Centre, Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, architects

Kobi Nazrul Primary School

1994, primary school

London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street

1866–7 mission hall and infants' school, converted for free-school and synagogue use in the 1920s, adapted as a resource centre in 2001–2

147-151 Commercial Road (with 9 New Road)

c.1900 shops and workshops, upper storeys now a college

Whitechapel Idea Store

2001-5, public library for Tower Hamlets Council

London School of Commerce & IT, 60-66 Greenfield Road

1960s workshop/factory building, adapted to educational use

Former Berner Street Combined Special School with Cookery and Laundry Centres

Special school with cookery and laundry, 1903. TJ Bailey, architect, for the School Board for London

109 New Road

1790s house, extended forward in 1932–3

Wombat's City Hostel, 7 Dock Street

1830-5 as the Sailors' Home facing Well (Ensign) Street, extended to Dock Street in 1863–5 (that side rebuilt 1954-7)

20-27 Wentworth Dwellings

1980s brown brick flats with shop units to ground floor, and school to Goulston Street. On site of Davis Mansions

Greatorex Business Centre, 8-10 Greatorex Street

former clothing factory of 1955-6, partially converted in 2011

Drapery Plaza (formerly Student Castle), 65 Leman Street

2011–13 student accommodation, replacing the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Drapery Warehouse of 1928–30

St Paul's Church

church of 1846-7, founded as a sailors' chapel, converted to be a nursery in 2002

London Enterprise Academy (formerly Aneurin Bevan House), 81-91 Commercial Road

1980-1, built as offices (occupied by the NHS) with a penthouse, converted to school in 2014. The site previously housed the King's Hall.

Dental Hospital and Institute of Dentistry

Bold 1960s block designed by Stephen Statham & Associates as a dental institute and students’ union.

E1 Studios (formerly Neil House), 3-15 Whitechapel Road

1967-8, speculative warehouse/showroom block, also used for public-sector storage, a language school and offices

6 Durward Street

1876-7, former Board school on the site of a ragged school of 1862, closed 1911 and adapted for industrial use, converted to flats in 1996-7

111 New Road

house of the 1790s, extended forwards in 1920-1 as commercial premises, now a school and restaurant

Former Working Lads' Institute

1884-7, educational institution with shop, George Baines, architect, reduced in size 1899-1900, closed 1973, converted to flats in 1997

1-13 Adler Street

1963-4, flatted workshops with shops, built for the London County Council, part adapted for college use

91-99 Fieldgate Street, including Feather Mews

1926-7, garment-making complex with house, warehouse, courtyard and garage, now with shops and workshops

London Metropolitan University

1964-5 as wholesale showrooms and storage, adapted to educational use

Swanlea Secondary School

1991-3, secondary school, on the site of Brady Street Dwellings and Brady Street Mansions

Former Infant School, now flats

Infants' School of 1859, converted into flats

Toynbee Hall

1880s Tudoresque settlement house with later additions, streetside building site of St Jude's vicarage

Open space, Moss Close

former workhouse burial ground (1813 to 1853) then school playground (1862 to 1965), laid out as a grass mound in 1983-5

St Paul's School Mission Room and Infant Nursery (later used as Church House)

1874, school and mission hall, adapted in 1958 to be Church House, a refuge for prostitutes

Canon Barnett Primary School

Built in 1900-1 as Commercial Street School by the School Board for London, renamed Canon Barnett Primary School 1951

23 New Road

1901, Jewish Day Nursery, Rowland Plumbe, architect

Pure Aldgate, 60 Commercial Road

2014-15, part 10-, part 19-storey student accommodation building on the site of Morrison Buildings South of 1873-4

38-40 Commercial Road

1936-7 seven-storey office building extending to Alie Street, Commercial Road front refaced in red granite 1996

Leman Locke

2014-16, apart-hotel, on the site of the German Mission Day School, 1861–3

Hult International Business School (with Hult Tower), 33 Commercial Road

warehouse and offices of 1902, linked with addition of tower to rear in 2012-14

Former St George's Brewery, 33 Commercial Road

model brewery of 1846-7, with warehouse to Assam Street of 1913-20, converted 2012-14

Oceanair House, 133-7 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7PT

1937 moderne shop and office building, previously known as Cardigan House, upper parts latterly used by London Metropolitan University

City Reach, 19 Leman Street

2004–5, seven-storey block of offices, flats and unlet shops on the site of the Whitechapel Charities' Commercial School

Maryam Centre, East London Mosque, Fieldgate Street

2009-13, women's prayer hall and community centre

London Muslim Centre

2003-4, centre comprising halls and classrooms, with offices in business wing

Pathology and Pharmacy Building

2003–5, laboratories and offices, Capita Percy Thomas, architects

School of Nursing and Midwifery

1965–7, nursing college with a distinctive round lecture theatre faced with concrete. Also known as Princess Alexandra House

Abernethy Building

1995–7, medical research centre, the Blizard Institute's National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation, clad in 2018

Wingate Building, 26 Ashfield Street

1978–81, offices and research laboratories for the Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, raised in 2002–4

Yvonne Carter Building

1975–7, laboratory block constructed as a base for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council

Queen Mary Innovation Centre

2007–9, laboratory block designed by NBBJ Architects

Blizard Building

2003–5, medical research centre, two glass-clad blocks linked by a bridge, designed by Alsop & Partners and AMEC

Elan Court, 36 Newark Street

Former school built in 1842, Alfred Richardson Mason, architect, Tudor-Gothic detailing, converted to flats in 1995

The Community Centre

2013-14, community centre, temporary home (2016-18) of Toynbee Hall

English Martyrs RC Primary School, St Mark Street

1969–70, school, designed by Broadbent, Hastings, Reid & Todd

The Curve, 14 Fieldgate Street

2010-12, student housing with a supermarket

Whitechapel Technology Centre (East London Works)

1980-1, training centre with shops, altered c.1989 and 2015 and adapted for office use. Site of Black Lion Yard

Central House, London Metropolitan University

1964–5, flatted factory, Lush & Lester, architects

Whitechapel Gallery, former Whitechapel Library

2009 extension to Whitechapel Gallery housed in former 1891-2 Passmore Edwards Library. Incorporates entrance to Aldgate East tube station

part of Calcutta House, London Metropolitan Univeristy

1951 and 1955 former Brooke Bond tea storage and packing building, later part of London Metropolitan University

The Wash Houses, London Metropolitan University, former Whitechapel Baths

LMU events space and home of Frederick Parker furniture collection, formerly the Women's Library, on site of Whitechapel Baths

Calcutta House annexe, Old Castle Street

1932 former Brooke Bond welfare building, later part of London Metropolitan University

Calcutta House

Calcutta House, former Brooke Bond tea warehouse, built 1909, later London Metropolitan University

part of Calcutta House

1962 former tea warehouse, site of St Paul's German Reformed Church, later part of Calcutta House, London Metropolitan University

former London Metropolitan University law and business school

2004 red brick former university law building, on site of Goulston baths

St Philip's Church Library and the Royal London Museum

Red brick church of 1888–92 designed by Arthur Cawston and converted into a medical library in the 1980s.

St Paul's School

1869-70, primary school, on the site of the Danish–Norwegian Churh of 1694–6

Whitechapel Gallery, 77–82 Whitechapel High Street

1898–1901 art gallery extended 1985 and 2009 when neighbouring library incorporated

Herbert House

1935-6 courtyard of neo-Georgian flats built by the London County Council on site of LSB Old Castle Street board school

84B Whitechapel High Street

Tenement house in Angel Alley, built in 1869, later a George Yard Mission shelter and since 1968/9 the Feeedom Press and Bookshop

Davenant Centre to rear of 179 Whitechapel Road

1894-6, assembly hall and staircase addition to the Whitechapel Foundation School, Frank Ponler Telfer architect

Davenant Youth Centre (former Davenant School)

charity school of 1686, rebuilt in 1818, adapted to be a community centre in 1985-7 and for offices in 2005-6

St George's German and English School

Elementary school, built 1877–8, designed by E A Gruning, converted to flats