Bastion or garden feature, including ramps, City of London, London

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5226 / 51°31'21"N

Longitude: -0.096 / 0°5'45"W

OS Eastings: 532189

OS Northings: 182127

OS Grid: TQ321821

Mapcode National: GBR Q8.LC

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.9Z3N

Plus Code: 9C3XGWF3+2H

Entry Name: Bastion or garden feature, including ramps

Listing Date: 4 December 1997

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1021952

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466576

ID on this website: 101021952

Location: St Luke's, City of London, London, EC1Y

County: London

District: City and County of the City of London

Electoral Ward/Division: Cripplegate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of London

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): City of London

Church of England Parish: St Giles Cripplegate

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description

TQ 3282 SW
627-0/3/10180

GOLDEN LANE (west side)
Bastion or garden feature, including ramps

GV
II
Rondpoint or garden feature. Part of original design won in competition 1952; built 1956-57. Winning competition design by Geoffry Powell, design developed and built by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. Reinforced concrete clad in granite blocks. Circular bastion with continuous seat on each side, paved in granite setts and reached via steps, and with curved ramp on one side, which has steel balustrade.

SPECIAL INTEREST
The bastion was in the original design, and enclosed the strong north-south axis of the competition layout, which survives though it is not emphasised in the version as built. It, the steps and ramp, also highlight the changes in levels within the scheme. Its greatest significance, however, is as the principal circular element within the formal grid of rectangular blocks, gardens and terraces at Golden Lane. Out of the featureless landscape of derelict, bombed warehouses with deep basements, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon developed their interest in three-dimensional planning to achieve a particularly interesting, urban pattern, a mixture of picturesque planning laced with the formal geometry which was becoming a powerful force in the early 1950s. Though the most conscious landscape feature of the estate, there is nothing left to chance of nature in the bastion either.

HISTORY AND ANALYSIS
The development and importance of the Golden Lane Estate is explained in the entry for Great Arthur House.

(Architectural Review: June 1957: 415-26; City of London Corporation Record Office: Surviving drawings and perspectives) .

Listing NGR: TQ3218982127

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