Moorgate Underground Station
MOORGATE UNDERGROUND STATION, 137-141, MOORGATE EC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359213
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Moorgate Underground Station
- Statutory Address:
- MOORGATE UNDERGROUND STATION, 137-141, MOORGATE EC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359213
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Moorgate Underground Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORGATE UNDERGROUND STATION, 137-141, MOORGATE EC2
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:
- MOORGATE UNDERGROUND STATION, 137-141, MOORGATE EC2
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 32730 81686
Details
TQ 3281 NE MOORGATE EC2 (West side) 627/4/3 Nos. 137-141 (Odd) 10.11.77 Moorgate Underground Station II
Underground station with shop. 1900 by T Phillips Figgis. Red brick with Portland stone ground floor and upper floor dressings, slate roof. 6 storeys, 4 storey return with roof-storey. Ground storey stone-faced with massive keyed segmental-headed arches (those to return elevation blind) containing station entrance and shopfront. 1st, 2nd and 3rd storeys with sash windows over continuous cill bands and with architraves and cornices, those to 1st storey keyed; 4th and 5th storeys with sashes in eared architraves, beneath deeply projecting plain cornice. 6th storey gable-end over with pediment moulding corresponding with main cornice, central 3-light window with attached colonettes to mullions and continuous cornice. Round window over. Round corner tower in form of oriel deriving additional support from attached columns flanking shop-entrance, with plain square caps and carved relief band in lieu of cornice. Intermediate storeys with 3-light leaded-light windows; 4th storey rusticated stone, with round-headed windows between attached columns carried by enriched corbels, the principal cornice carved round above the column caps; leaded dome over. The ticket hall was remodelled in the 1930s and the platforms have also lost their original decoration Included as a particularly handsome underground station building. Sources Laurence Menear, London's Underground Stations, 1985 David Lawrence, Underground London, 1994
Listing NGR: TQ3273081691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199655
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lawrence, D, Underground London, (1994)
Menear, L, Londons Underground Stations, (1985)
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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