ST JOHN'S LODGE

ST JOHN'S LODGE, INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK NW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1277478
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: ST JOHN'S LODGE
Statutory Address:: ST JOHN'S LODGE, INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK NW1

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Date:: 2007-03-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1277478
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: ST JOHN'S LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: ST JOHN'S LODGE, INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
Statutory Address 2:: ST JOHN'S LODGE, REGENT'S PARK NW1

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 JOHN'S LODGE, INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
Statutory Address:: ST JOHN'S LODGE, REGENT'S PARK NW1

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 28222 82794

Details

TQ 2882 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER INNER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK, NW1 25/1 St John's Lodge 5.2.70 G.V. II* Villa. 1818-19 by John Raffield for C A Tulk; alterations by Decimus Burton 1831-32 (for Lord Wellesley);with extended wings, entrance screen and attic storey and interior redecoration, by Charles Barry with Ambrose Poynter 1846-48 (for the banker Isaac Goldsmith); further interior alterations and decoration for the 3rd Marquis of Bute 1892-c1895 by R Weir with H W Londsdale and landscaping by Weir Schultz. One of the four surviving villas in Nash's Regent's Park layout. Stucco; slate roof. Grecian villa elaborated as Italianate "casina" by Barry. Barry's wings extend to form east entrance forecourt. 2 and 3 storeys. 5 windows wide, with 3-bay entrance front between wings and west front with central bow. Ground floor and entrance screened by colonnaded loggia developed as large Venetian porch to centre, framed by panelled piers with pediment overall rising into upper floors. Architraved and corniced 1st floor windows in slightly advanced flanking bays and 2 windows to centre in attic storey. Main cornice over 2nd floor and attic cornice and blocking course. The boldly modelled l½ storey former library and ballroom wings are channelled; with Venetian windows to their east ends, relief panels above impost string to corners and circular bust-niches in spandrels; impost string returned below blind consoled oculi to sides; plinth and bold crowning cornice with urn-capped dies to parapet. The west front has original (but heightened) giant pilastered bow to centre, with architraved windows. Interesting interior, despite alterations, with elements of Raffield's work (Soanian vestibule) but principally Barry's and Poynter's, in rich Cinquecento style, the ballroom frescoed grotesques obliterated but Poynter's chimneypiece and the double doors intact; central saloon-hall with galleries by Barry but unfinished frescoes of the signs of the Zodiac by H W Londsdale who also elaborated painted decoration of central rooms for Lord Bute; Weir Schultz staircase and library annexe (his circular chapel demolished); etc. The formal "Dutch" or "Old English" garden on the entrance axis east of the wings may be part of Weir Schultz's landscaping for Lord Bute. Country Life; July 11 1968.

Listing NGR: TQ2822282794

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Legacy System number:: 406803
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 11 July, (1968)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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