ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL

ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL, CITY ROAD EC1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268444
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1996
List Entry Name:: ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL, CITY ROAD EC1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268444
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1996
List Entry Name:: ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL, CITY ROAD EC1

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:: ORIGINAL BLOCK OF FORMER ST MARK'S HOSPITAL, CITY ROAD EC1

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31963 82927

Details

TQ 3182 NE 635-1/69/10072

CITY ROAD, EC1 (southwest side) Original block of former St Mark's Hospital

GV II Former hospital, 1852-54 by John Wallen, raised 1895-96 by Rowland Plumbe. Red brick, rusticated stone ground floor, basement, bands, quoins and cornice. Slate roof, tall end stacks.

Five bays wide, nine bays deep to a symmetrical plan originally with male and female segregation; three storeys, basement and attic. Elegant facade is symmetrical, with rusticated ground floor, basement and quoins, the latter continued into the attic above a heavy, projecting modillion cornice. All windows have traditional glazing bar sashes with small, regular panes, those to the ground. floor with round heads and those to principal upper floors with architrave surrounds. Pediment and quoins to central attic window. Pound arched pediment to central window of first floor over late C20 doors under fanlight and voussoirs in projecting porch. On first-floor band across the elevation is inscribed 'ST MARKS HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA &C'. The treatment of quoins, cornice and architraves continued for two bays of side elevation, the remaining seven bays are simplified, with bands at first floor and attic level.

Interior is largely simple in decoration and the principal features are here noted as a guide. It is dominated by a large central staircase with cast-iron balustrade to two lower flights and simpler wrought-iron balustrade to upper flight. Around it are small wards designed to reduce the risk of contagious diseases spreading round the hospital, that to the rear of the staircase on each floor later adapted to take lifts without destroying the rest of the plan. On the ground floor, rear ward with heavy dentilled cornice. To left a large bay from the 1920s, and not of special interest, serves ward later adapted as canteen. Forecourt with stone piers to low walls, these piers shown in the original elevation of 1852. Higher though similar gatepiers at street entrance.

The rear block by Rowland Plumbe and C20 additions to this hospital are not of special interest. The original block, however, is not only the first hospital in England for the-treatment of rectal diseases but a very rare early surviving example of a specialist hospital. It. was deliberately built with a domestic character to its principal elevation, which is a distinguished composition, and survives little altered.

Listing NGR: TQ3196382927

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 461832
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Granshaw, L, St Marks Hospital London - a Social History of a Specialist Hospital
'British Medical Journal' in British Medical Journal, (1896), 1183
'Illustrated London News' in 14 August, (1852)

Legal

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