St Martin's Vestry Hall
ST MARTIN'S VESTRY HALL, 5, ST MARTIN'S LANE WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264790
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- St Martin's Vestry Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARTIN'S VESTRY HALL, 5, ST MARTIN'S LANE WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264790
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Martin's Vestry Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARTIN'S VESTRY HALL, 5, ST MARTIN'S LANE WC2
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:
- ST MARTIN'S VESTRY HALL, 5, 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 30112 80577
Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. MARTIN'S LANE, WC2 72/128 24.2.58 No. 5 (St. Martin's Vestry Hall.) (Formerly listed under St Martin's G.V. II* Place) Vestry Hall. c.1827-30 probably to a design by Nash. Stucco, slate roof. Pedimented neo-classical composition, part of Nash's isolation of St. Martin's and the Strand Improvements. 3 storeys and basement. Broad 3-window wide front. Channelled ground floor with later C.19, stone, Doric coupled-column porch to right. Ground floor has recessed tripartite glazing bar sashes with panelled dividers, in architraves; similar to 1st floor in segmental arched recesses with panelled lunettes. 2nd floor glazing bar sashes in architraves. Pseudo-pedestal to 1st floor with blind balustrading below sills; main entablature as base to full width pediment with sculptured bas relief in tympanum by W. Pitts. Cast iron spear-and-mace head area railings. In the vestibule bust of Richard Miller by Rysbrack, 1727. Part of St. Martin's Parochial Buildings, a typically varied Nash composition. Survey of London; Vol. XX.
Listing NGR: TQ3011280577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426931
- 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.
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