PERIMETER WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS TO ST GEORGE'S GARDENS

ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378729
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS TO ST GEORGE'S GARDENS
Statutory Address:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378729
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS TO ST GEORGE'S GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET
Statutory Address 2:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HEATHCOTE STREET
Statutory Address 3:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HENRIETTA MEWS
Statutory Address 4:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, WAKEFIELD STREET

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 GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET
Statutory Address:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HEATHCOTE STREET
Statutory Address:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HENRIETTA MEWS
Statutory Address:: ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, WAKEFIELD STREET

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3041682478

Details

TQ3082SW 798-1/90/1868

CAMDEN HANDEL STREET Perimeter wall, gates and railings to St George's Gardens

(Formerly Listed as: HANDEL STREET Walls, lodge, cottage & monuments in St George's Gardens)

14/05/74

GV II

Includes: Perimeter wall, gates and railings to St George's Gardens HENRIETTA MEWS. Includes: Perimeter wall, gates and railings to St George's Gardens HEATHCOTE STREET. Includes: Perimeter wall, gates and railings to St George's Gardens WAKEFIELD STREET. Graveyard wall. c1713, with some local repairs of later date. Red brick with stone coping to piers. Wrought-iron gates, c1884, to Heathcote Street, cast-iron railings to Wakefield Street, with wrought-iron railings at eastern end, c1884. Later brick infills between original piers along Henrietta Mews. Dividing wall between burial grounds of St George's, Bloomsbury, and St George the Martyr, Holborn, survives in western part of gardens. The south-west corner is now separated and used as a playground. The wall is lined with tomb stones formerly located within the burial ground. HISTORICAL NOTE: this three acre burial ground was acquired in 1713 to serve the new churches of St George, Bloomsbury Way (qv), and St George the Martyr, Queen Square (qv). The two cemeteries were divided by a brick wall which originally ran along the whole length of the burial grounds. Famous persons buried here included Anne, daughter of Richard, Protector Cromwell (d.1727), the painter Jonathan Richardson (d.1745), and the anti-slavery campaigner Zachary Macaulay (d.1838).

The burial grounds were closed c1854. After a period of neglect they were reopened as public gardens in 1885 and 1889. The present garden layout was designed by William Holmes in 1881 (plan in Holborn Library). The gardens are listed grade II* on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St Pancras IV: London: 1952: 77-79).

Listing NGR: TQ3041682478

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Legacy System number:: 478063
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Kings Cross neighbourhood The Parish of St Pancras Part 4: Volume 24 , (1951), 77-79

Legal

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