Westminster, Incorporated Accountants' Hall (and Gates, Railings and Gate Piers)

            Former Astor Estate Office. 1895 by J L Pearson, designed to include town flat for Lord Astor. Portland stone, slate roof. Highly sophisticated, scholarly, yet never slavish rendition "in small" of an Early Elizabethan style, exquisitely executed. Symmetrical front with north west wing. 2 storeys with steep gable end roof. 5 windows wide. 4-centred arched doorway in west side between shallow gabled breaks, one with oriel bay. South front has 4-centred arched grouped mullion casements between large oriel bays with leaded and stained glass lights and crenellated parapets flanking the south front. Saddlestones to gables with finely wrought iron finials and weathervane on ridge, delicately detailed "Tudor" chimney stacks. Very fine and richly decorated interiors with central staircase hall with gallery of ebony columns surrounding it at upper level, very high quality carving in an Elizabethan manner with inventive detailing, the roof glazed between the trusses. The principal room on the 1st floor lies behind the south front overlooking the Thames through the oriel bays, lavishly decorated, in particular the doors (here and throughout the house), the central door faced with nine silver-gilt panels by Frampton of seated female figures; the stained glass in the oriels depicting landscapes by the firm of Clayton and Bell. A remarkable ensemble, one of Pearson's last works, and a fin de siecle counterpoint to Pugin's ScarisbrickHall interiors...  Gates, railings and gate piers. 1895 designed by J L Pearson. Wrought iron and Portland stone. Freely interpreted Gothic-Elizabethan. Dwarf stone walls and finial capped panelled gate piers with ironwork of exceptional craftsmanship. EH Listing
   

Taken in: UK / England / The City / Fleet Street (show map)

Taken on: March 14, 2020

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England

London

Westminster

Grade II star listed building

gates

LBS207245

LBS207244

guildhall

EBB

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Sets appears in: • London, 2020 • City of Westminster more » • London's Best Buildings « less

Groups appears in: • (Officially) England's Best Buildings

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