A Barnes school which has counted Milton, Samuel Johnson, Dr Robert Winston and former Chancellor George Osborne among its alumni has submitted plans to demolish 'most' of its existing buildings in a widespread refurbishment.

Plans submitted to Richmond Council this week for an overhaul at St Paul’s School, in Lonsdale Road include a refurbished sports hall and building new facilities.

The new 'educational facilities' include classrooms, a dining hall, kitchen, assembly hall, library, chapel, junior music school, boat house and sports pavilion.

It also includes staff accommodation and 40-bed boarding accommodation.

Playing fields and sports facilities would also be 'reconfigured' while 'minor structures' such as covered cycle parking, canopies, a pergola and a covered play area would be erected.

Its planning also involves the footprints for three to four-storey residential units, with basements, attics and underground parking, for full-time school personnel.

In 2007, Nicholas Hare Architects were appointed to produce detailed designs for the first set of new buildings.

In late 2009, Richmond Council granted St Paul’s School detailed planning permission and building started in 2011.

The new science block and courtyard building was completed in 2012 and won a Civic Trust Award a year later in addition to a RIBA London Award in 2015.

Two years later, the new Drama Centre and Samuel Pepys heater was completed, also designed by Nicholas Hare Architects.

St Paul's was established in 1509 and describes itself as 'an independent school offering outstanding, all-round education for gifted boys aged seven to 18 years'. Its first building, next to St Paul's Cathedral was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and it has moved four times since because of growing demand, settling at its current location in 1968.

Famous alumni include poet John Milton, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Johnson in the 17th century and, more recently, the likes of Clement Freud, Dr Robert Winston, broadcasters Nicholas Parsons and Dan Snow and playwright Patrick Marber.