Description

TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl
70/91 ; 71/4 (East side)
30-5-72 Nos 52 to 100 (even) and
74A THE QUADRANT (inclu-
ding Nos 9, 19, 27 and
29 Glasshouse Street and
Nos 5 to 17 (odd) and 14
to 18 (even) Quadrant
Arcade and No 15A Air St
GV II
Quadrant of offices, shops and arcade. The north eastern half of
Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Regent
Street Quadrant. Designed from c. 1911, taking Norman Shaw's
neo-Baroque set piece of the Quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly
Hotel as key and scale and completed 1920-23. Stone faced, slate
roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and mezzanine. 3 storeys
above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has bold pulvinated
rustication to its articulating piers, ashlar upper floors with
windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice; continuous
range of dormers and bronze cresting to ridge; prominent banded and
corniced stone stacks. The penetration of Air Street is marked by
a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open giant 3
storey Doric columned loggia above, a la Somerset House. The
composition is terminated by slightly advanced pavilions with
concave, pyramidal cupola-roofs. The Quadrant Arcade has 2 storey
glass fronted shops divided by coupled pilasters, Ionic to ground
floor and of Tower of Winds derivation to 1st floor. No 68, The
café Royal, was rebuilt behind Blomfield's facade by Sir Henry
Tanner, 1923-28, retaining elements of the original decoration of
the 1865-72 caff Royal by Archer and Green, in particular the
sumptuous gilt caryatids and mirrors in the Grill Room.

Listing NGR: TQ2941580666

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081346

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)