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Prince’s Gardens Preparatory School
● Prince’s Gardens Preparatory School, Kensington
● Launched September 2020, in use from January 2021
● 3,147m²
● £10m
● Period detail, natural materials, pops of colour
Creating ‘the best prep school in London’ was the brief from Cognita Schools several years ago – so even before the pandemic it was an ambitious project.
Prince’s Gardens Preparatory School – a new independent prep school for boys and girls aged 3–11 – is now nearing completion, with staff and pupils set to move over to the new school in January 2021. In the autumn term pupils are being taught in a Cognita school close by, due to a delay in construction as a result of the pandemic.
The £10m project has seen four, six-storey…
