St Johns Green Primary School, St Johns Green, Colchester Archaeological Building Recording Report

This scheme of building recording pertains to a historic wall at St Johns Green Primary School, St Johns Green, Colchester. The aim of this programme of recording is to provide a long-term sustainable record of the historic wall prior to any repair work being undertaken. The wall was photogrammetrically rectified and this was marked-up on site during the survey. Detailed photographs were taken of key architectural features. This survey, documentary and cartographic sources were all assessed to determine to the historic background of the wall and its origins. The recording concluded that the surveyed wall contains five phases of construction, ranging from the medieval period to the late 19th century. The wall is supported on a medieval foundation and had been extensively refaced in the post-medieval period with worked stone reclaimed from St John's Abbey to the south-east, as well as reused Roman material. In the early 19th century a brick entranceway was created through the wall, which was subsequently infilled in the late 19th century at a similar time to the construction of the school. A retaining brick wall was also added to the top of the wall at this point to support the raised ground-level on the southern side.