ST ANDREWS PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS WREN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

8A, ST CROSS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378739
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: ST ANDREWS PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS WREN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 8A, ST CROSS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378739
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: ST ANDREWS PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS WREN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 8A, ST CROSS STREET
Statutory Address 2:: ST ANDREWS PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, HATTON GARDEN
Statutory Address 3:: WREN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 43, HATTON GARDEN

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:: 8A, ST CROSS STREET
Statutory Address:: ST ANDREWS PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, HATTON GARDEN
Statutory Address:: WREN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 43, HATTON GARDEN

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:: TQ 31346 81880

Details

TQ3181NW 798-1/102/783 24/10/51

CAMDEN HATTON GARDEN (East side) No.43 Wren House and attached railings

II

Formerly known as: St Andrew's Parochial Schools HATTON GARDEN. Includes: No.8A ST CROSS STREET. Church, now offices. c1670 replacing St Andrews Holborn after the Great Fire of 1666, adapted as a Chantry School c1696, gutted during Second World War, rebuilt internally but facade restored. Erected by Lord Hatton, reputedly to designs by Wren. Brown brick with stone rusticated quoins. Brick band below parapet. C20 tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Double fronted, 3 windows. 6-window return to Cross Street. Hatton Garden facade with slightly projecting central bay with stone doorcase with consoles, pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment. To either side stone corbel supports with painted stone boy and girl figures in C18 costume. Above, semicircular arched window with stone key, the bay topped by an open stucco pediment. Bays to either side with transom and mullion windows with flat arches and stone keys on ground floor, 1st floor with semicircular arched windows having stone keystones. Stone capped parapet. Cross Street elevation similar but 3 window central bay, no pediment, figures missing and left hand bay with square headed windows on ground and 1st floor. Ground floor window to right of door only one with keystone. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings with geometrical panels to areas.

CAMDEN

TQ3181NW ST CROSS STREET 798-1/102/783 No.8A 24/10/51

II

See under: No.43 Wren House and attached railings HATTON GARDEN.

Listing NGR: TQ3134681880

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Legacy System number:: 478073
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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