Bermondsey Municipal Offices and Attached Railing and Brackets
BERMONDSEY MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND ATTACHED RAILING AND BRACKETS, SPA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385930
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Bermondsey Municipal Offices and Attached Railing and Brackets
- Statutory Address:
- BERMONDSEY MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND ATTACHED RAILING AND BRACKETS, SPA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385930
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Bermondsey Municipal Offices and Attached Railing and Brackets
- Statutory Address 1:
- BERMONDSEY MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND ATTACHED RAILING AND BRACKETS, SPA ROAD
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:
- BERMONDSEY MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND ATTACHED RAILING AND BRACKETS, SPA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33818 79200
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3379 SPA ROAD 636-1/5/715 (North West side) Bermondsey Municipal Offices and attached railing and brackets
II
Borough hall. 1928-1930. By Henry Tansley, FRIBA. Coursed ashlar blocks. Roof parapeted. Designed in emulation of the early C19 Greek Revival. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement and 9-window range. All openings are flat with moulded architraves. Steps up to centrally placed entrance set under giant tetrastyle Ionic portico; tympanum to pediment with the Borough arms in low relief; anthemion to peak with blocky attic storey behind. Portico entablature with dentil cornice continuous across the elevation which is articulated by plain, 2-storey pilaster strips; shallow rebate to the right corner. The entrance is distinguished by a very elaborate cornice with paterae frieze and is flanked by a pair of small windows with grilles of an original design. Railings and torcheres to either side of entrance and railings to basement area. The design returns to the right for 9 bays; the corner bay of the return is broader than the rest, its windows framed by Ionic distyle 'in antis'; the 1st-floor window with a balcony. Railings to narrow area. Entrance in the 7th bay has iron grille and 8-panel door of original design. Plaque to the right of the main entrance: Borough of Bermondsey Municipal Offices/ This Foundation Stone Was Laid October 20, 1928 by Alderman Harry C Bateman JP/ Architect H Tansley FRIBA/ WE Baker General Manager of the Works/ GF Avery Supervisor of the Works. INTERIOR: of special note are vestibule, entrance and stair hall. Rectangular vestibule entered through veined marble aedicule; similar aedicules and mouldings to entrance hall in which Doric columns support an elliptical gallery. Imperial stair to north lit by electric torcheres. First-floor gallery roofed by an elliptical dome supported on coupled columns. Pavement of an original design. Such grand display in the entrance to municipal buildings, where the greatest care is usually taken on the decoration of the council chamber, is explained both by the fact that this structure was an annexe to a building next door, now demolished, and that the architect was able to buy these richly veined marble features from a house in Park Lane demolished in 1927-28.
(Harwood E (English Heritage): London Region Report on Bermondsey Municipal Offices, Spa Road: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3381879200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471350
- 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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