ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL

ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL, 1-4, ST MARTIN'S LANE WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236019
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL, 1-4, ST MARTIN'S LANE WC2

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Date:: 2001-06-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236019
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL, 1-4, ST MARTIN'S LANE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL, 1-4, ST MARTIN'S LANE 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 30131 80577

Details

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. MARTIN'S LANE, WC2 72/129 Nos. 1 to 4 consec. 24.2.58 (St. Martin in the Fields Secondary School.) (Formerly listed under St Martin's Place) G.V. II* Former National School. 1827-30 by G.Ledwell Taylor but no doubt to a design by John Nash. Stucco, slate roof. Elegant Ionic design; part of Nash's isolation of St. Martin's and the Strand Improvements. 3 storeys. 7 windows wide south front. 2 window wide return to Adelaide Street with plain square headed doorway. Rusticated podium - ground floor. Recessed glazing bar windows to ground floor with flat, voussoired and keystoned arches. Main floor with archivolt arched windows with moulded imposts, small square 2nd floor windows; both storeys articulated by giant fluted Ionic pilasters, coupled flanking end bays, rising from plat band and carrying entablature with dentil cornice and blocking course. 2 window return with similar treatment. The frieze of entablature is inscribed in fine lettering "St. Martin's National Schools". Part of St. Martin's Parochial Buildings, a typically varied Nash composition. Survey of London; Vol. XX.

Listing NGR: TQ3013180577

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Legacy System number:: 426930
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'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.