Central St Martin's College of Art and Design
CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SOUTHAMPTON ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378790
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Central St Martin's College of Art and Design
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SOUTHAMPTON ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378790
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Central St Martin's College of Art and Design
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SOUTHAMPTON ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SOUTHAMPTON ROW
- Statutory Address 3:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, THEOBALDS ROW
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:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SOUTHAMPTON ROW
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SOUTHAMPTON ROW
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, THEOBALDS ROW
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 30500 81670
Details
TQ3081NW
798-1/100/1483
CAMDEN
SOUTHAMPTON ROW (East side)
Central St Martin's College of Art and Design
(Formerly Listed as: SOUTHAMPTON ROW Central School of Arts and Crafts)
11/11/82
II*
Includes: Central St Martin's College of Art and Design THEOBALDS ROW.
College of art and design. 1905-8. By London County Council Architects' Department, General Section, job architect AH Verstage, influenced by WR Lethaby. Base of Cornish granite, upper storeys of Portland stone, lead roof.
EXTERIOR: Five storeys and corner attic. Long front of 14 windows to Southampton Row, canted corner and short return of six windows to Theobalds Road and three to High Holborn. Ground storey has round-headed windows and impost bands with rectangular slabs of granite above, originally intended for relief carvings. First and second storeys have windows of irregular width, slightly recessed and united under a round-headed arch. Third storey with similar windows between string courses. Fourth storey with small, square windows alternating with decorative stone grilles in the form of lozenges with inset circles. Heavy bracketed cornice. Canted corner has enriched treatment with various styles of window to staircase, high ogee double dome in lead over cornice, and small sculpture on ground storey showing woman with a sword supporting coats of arms of St George and City of London, dated 1908 and with the inscription 'Labor omnia vincit'. Former entrance to London Day Training College on Southampton Row, right of centre, now blocked, with slightly projecting bay above it and main cornice raised into a curve. Entrance to art college towards Theobalds Road in similar style, its sliding wooden doors with enriched panelling. Above the door "LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts" in bronze.
INTERIOR is interesting spatially. Vaulted entrance hall faced in Hopton Wood stone. Generous main staircase similarly lined. Exhibition hall rectangular with canted ends, partly vaulted, springing from a single central column and partly covered by a glazed dome.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the Central School of Arts and Crafts (N section) and London Day Training College (S section). WR Lethaby was Principal of the Central School at the time of building and is commemorated on the Southampton Row elevation by a blue plaque.
TQ3081NW
798-1/100/1483
CAMDEN
THEOBALDS ROW
Central St Martin's College of Art and Design
11/11/82
II*
See under: Central St Martin's College of Art and Design SOUTHAMPTON ROW.
Listing NGR: TQ3050081670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478144
- 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.
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