The upper part of the entrance hall at Battersea Polytechnic Institute, showing the balcony and the elaborate plasterwork on the ceiling

Date:
19 Oct 1893
Location:
Battersea Polytechnic Institute, Battersea Park Road, Battersea, Wandsworth, Greater London Authority
Reference:
BL12439
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The institute was built in 1890 to designs by E W Mountford. It was built by the Holloway Brothers builders, for whom the image was taken. The building is now used as Westminster College.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Architect: Mountford, Edward William

Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Decorative Plasterwork, Balcony, Ceiling, Victorian Polytechnic, Victorian Institute