Bastion or garden feature, including ramps
Bastion or garden feature, including ramps, Golden Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021952
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Bastion or garden feature, including ramps
- Statutory Address:
- Bastion or garden feature, including ramps, Golden Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021952
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Bastion or garden feature, including ramps
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bastion or garden feature, including ramps, Golden Lane
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Bastion or garden feature, including ramps, Golden Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32189 82127
Details
TQ 3282 SW
627-0/3/10180
GOLDEN LANE (west side)
Bastion or garden feature, including ramps
GV
II
Rondpoint or garden feature. Part of original design won in competition 1952; built 1956-57. Winning competition design by Geoffry Powell, design developed and built by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. Reinforced concrete clad in granite blocks. Circular bastion with continuous seat on each side, paved in granite setts and reached via steps, and with curved ramp on one side, which has steel balustrade.
SPECIAL INTEREST
The bastion was in the original design, and enclosed the strong north-south axis of the competition layout, which survives though it is not emphasised in the version as built. It, the steps and ramp, also highlight the changes in levels within the scheme. Its greatest significance, however, is as the principal circular element within the formal grid of rectangular blocks, gardens and terraces at Golden Lane. Out of the featureless landscape of derelict, bombed warehouses with deep basements, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon developed their interest in three-dimensional planning to achieve a particularly interesting, urban pattern, a mixture of picturesque planning laced with the formal geometry which was becoming a powerful force in the early 1950s. Though the most conscious landscape feature of the estate, there is nothing left to chance of nature in the bastion either.
HISTORY AND ANALYSIS
The development and importance of the Golden Lane Estate is explained in the entry for Great Arthur House.
(Architectural Review: June 1957: 415-26; City of London Corporation Record Office: Surviving drawings and perspectives) .
Listing NGR: TQ3218982127
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466576
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural Review in June, (1957), 415-26
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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