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Latitude: 51.5185 / 51°31'6"N
Longitude: -0.1257 / 0°7'32"W
OS Eastings: 530139
OS Northings: 181619
OS Grid: TQ301816
Mapcode National: GBR H9.XT
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.R3W7
Plus Code: 9C3XGV9F+CP
Entry Name: Main Entrance Gateway, Railings and Attached Lodges to the British Museum
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Last Amended: 11 January 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1130406
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477885
ID on this website: 101130406
Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1B
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Bloomsbury Way St George
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET
798-1/100/699 (North side)
14/05/74 Main entrance gateway, railings and
attached lodges to The British
Museum
(Formerly Listed as:
GREAT RUSSELL STREET
Railings and main entrance gateway
of the British Museum)
GV II*
Main entrance gateway, railings & porters lodges. 1849. By
Sydney Smirke. Cast-iron and granite. Large, elaborate,
cast-iron double vehicle entrance gates flanked by single
footgates. Engaged, fluted and foliated Corinthian columns,
and pilasters, to piers surmounted by urns. Main piers of
granite containing small porters' lodges with plain
square-headed entrances. Elaborate cast-iron railings on
granite plinth with granite interval piers, the standards in
the form of candelabra on bases with clawed feet.
Listing NGR: TQ3013981619
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