NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1066285
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1066285
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2

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:: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29995 80611

Details

TQ 2980 NE and 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS ROAD, WC2 71/107 ;72/120 (West side)

9.1.70 National Portrait Gallery

G.V. I

Public art gallery. 1890-95 by Ewan Christian and J.K. Colling. Portland stone, slate, lead and glazed roofs. Freely composed Italian Renaissance design. 2 main storeys, basement and upper top lit galleries. 9 windows wide north front. The entrance is in short return with projecting lower pedimented entrance block picturesquely set on stepped angle of corner, semicircular arched doorway with Royal Arms carved in tympanum; short pilasters and portrait medallions above. The main north front has rusticated ground floor with square headed plate glass windows, upper floor with paired square headed windows, divided by granite shafts with distinctly Early English capitals, set beneath semicircular arches framing portrait medallions. String courses, cornice and deep parapet. The shallow south wing completes the east elevation of the National Gallery with giant engaged columns to bowed centre and Grecian pilasters to end pavilions, accounting for Grade I listing. West Duveen wing restrained ashlar addition of 1933 by the Office of Works. Ornate cast iron area railings. Interiors altered apart from staircase.

Survey of London; Vol. XX.

Listing NGR: TQ2999580611

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Legacy System number:: 209092
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , , Vol. 20, (1979)

Legal

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