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St Marylebone Library and Health Centre

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5212 / 51°31'16"N

Longitude: -0.1607 / 0°9'38"W

OS Eastings: 527707

OS Northings: 181857

OS Grid: TQ277818

Mapcode National: GBR 88.3V

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.51D5

Plus Code: 9C3XGRCQ+FP

Entry Name: St Marylebone Library and Health Centre

Listing Date: 16 January 1981

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1267671

English Heritage Legacy ID: 418105

ID on this website: 101267671

Location: Lisson Grove, Westminster, London, NW1

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: Bryanston and Dorset Square

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Mary Bryanston Square

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2781 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1 43/4 St Marylebone Library 16.1.81. and Health Centre

G.V. II

Public library. 1938-39 by Sir Edwin Cooper. Portland stone; flat terraced roofs. Stripped cubic version of Cooper's earlier Graeco-Roman Town Hall design. Basement, 3 storeys and attic storey. 5 windows wide, the end bays very slightly advanced. Central tetrastyle portico in antis through ground and 1st floors slightly overlapping the end bays; plain shafted giant Corinthian columns and pairs of antae, deep entablature with bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet with urn capped dies. Plain windows. 2nd floor band course to end bays and band course to 2nd floor parapet. The attic storey is set back over end bays but advanced and slightly taller to centre, in line with portico, with central thermal window flanked by cartouches and festooned frieze below parapet band course. 12 bay returns have ground and 1st floor windows recessed between plain giant piers. 2 subsidiary doorways with heavy porches to Upper Montagu Street. Band courses returned from front to 2nd floor and parapets. Stone parapeted area and flight of steps to portico flanked by bronze lampstandards with bracketed lamps and surmounted by small statues of children. The rear part of east return is linked to Cooper's Town Hall by an arched ashlar bridge at 2nd floor level and with a stone arched gateway beneath, towards Salisbury Place.

Listing NGR: TQ2770781857

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