Sion College and Attached Railings
SION COLLEGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT EC4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1079107
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Sion College and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SION COLLEGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT EC4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1079107
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Sion College and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SION COLLEGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT EC4
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:
- SION COLLEGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT EC4
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 31493 80858
Details
TQ 3180 NW VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, EC4 13/161 Sion College and attached railings (Formerly listed as Sion College)
5.6.72
II GV
College building. 1886 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Ground floor extension 1965-6. Red brick with stone dressings. Tudor Gothic style. Irregular storeys and fenestration. Entrance now removed to John Carpenter Street return. Ground floor projecting extension of vertically set windows in narrow recesses extends across the front of the return to No 9 Carmelite Street (qv). 1st floor to left, 5-light. traceried window centre 3-lights forming an oriel, surmounted by a battlemented parapet. Central hall with double-height 5-light traceried window through 1st and 2nd floors surmounted by a cusped balustrade, behind which a diaper patterned pediment; buttress to left terminating in an octagonal feature with domed roof; octagonal stair tower to right with slit windows and terminating in a traceried belvedere with pointed roof. To right, the original projecting, buttressed entrance; ground floor converted to 3-light traceried window, above paired 2-light windows and pediment with blind tracery flanked by tall finials. Entrance on return of porch with moulded ogee arch having fine carved stone insets including grotesque masks and armorial devices; spandrels of blind tracery with carved shields. Above, a panel of blind tracery. Buttressed return of irregular traceried fenestration; right hand angle with facetted stair tower having paired slit lights. Attached wrought and cast iron railings to areas. Built as a social centre and library for the clergy of London. Sion College forms a group with No 9 Carmelite Street.
Listing NGR: TQ3149380858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199798
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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