8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD

8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD, EC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064751
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1976
List Entry Name:: 8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: 8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD, EC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064751
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Jun-1992
List Entry Name:: 8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: 8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD, EC2

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 8, BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD, EC2

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 33119 81492

Details

TQ 3381 SW 11/355

BISHOPSGATE CHURCHYARD EC2 (South Side) No 8

(Formerly listed as the Gallipoli Restaurant)

5.3.76

II Former Turkish baths, recently listed as a restaurant.1894-5 by S.Harold Elphick for James Forder Nevill; late C20 alterations. Faience tiles, terracotta and brick. Islamic style.

Small rectangular building with polygonal apse. Flat roof. Single storey with two main rooms below ground level approached by stair in apse. Apse clad in faience tiles being black at ground level, alternating bands of cream and brown to sill level and pale blue with a darker patterned frieze above. Eastern window star-shaped; flanking windows (two each side) lancets with shaped heads; all set in terracotta with stained glass and linked by continuous rich distended ogee woodmoulds. Deep terracotta entablature in elaborately ornate Islamic style which continues around the building. Crowning the apse, a copper octagonal lantern with multifoil stained glass lights and projecting bracketed cornice surmounted by a coloured glass onion dome with metal star and crescent finial. Entrance on the north side having an elaborately ornate Islamic style terracotta doorcase with attached columns and multifoil arch. To the right, a late C20 three-light window.

Good and unusual Islamic style tiled interior, lobby lined with ornate interlocking tiles, the design for which was registered by Elphick; pink and white dado, green and white above. Tiles continue down stairwell leading to lobby with tile framed mirror and two main rooms both with ornate multi-coloured tiled pillars, beams and cornices. One room with framed panels of interlocking tiles with shallow niches having multifoil arches on chevron enriched colonettes. Other room has tiled archway and panels of hand-painted tiles.

The baths remained in use until the 1950s. When built, the site was extremely cramped (Broad Street House stood over much of the baths) leaving only sufficient room for the small building above ground. The ingenuity of the planning was praised in The Builder for 9 February 1892.

Listing NGR: TQ3311981492

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'The Builder' in The Builder, (1892)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.