Latitude: 51.5253 / 51°31'31"N
Longitude: -0.1269 / 0°7'37"W
OS Eastings: 530036
OS Northings: 182374
OS Grid: TQ300823
Mapcode National: GBR H7.ND
Mapcode Global: VHGQS.RX7K
Plus Code: 9C3XGVGF+46
Entry Name: Mary Ward Centre and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378963
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478326
ID on this website: 101378963
Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1H
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: King's Cross
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Pancras with St James and Christ Church St Pancras
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CAMDEN
TQ3082SW TAVISTOCK PLACE
798-1/95/1591 (North side)
14/05/74 No.9
Mary Ward Centre and attached
railings
GV II
School for handicapped children, now social centre. c1903. By
Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer. For the Passmore Edwards
Settlement, later called the Mary Ward Settlement. Red brick
with slated, hipped roof and dormers. Rectangular plan with
projecting wings to main, east, facade in courtyard facing
former Mary Ward Settlement (qv). Neo-Georgian style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 11 windows. Single storey
entrance extension to Tavistock Place. Entrance facade with
slightly projecting bay; bracketed hood to 2-leaf doors. Above
the hood, a lunette with brick relief keystone and radiating
strips. Bay flanked by narrow, vertically set flush sashes
with exposed boxing and brick sills. Stone capped parapet, set
back from which, top storey of the school; 3 similar sashes
under a modillion cornice.
East facade of school symmetrical; central, slightly
projecting, brick porch with plain bracketed canopy over
recessed doorway. Above the canopy, a fanlight with radiating
brick relief strips. Gauged brick flat arches to flush sashes
with exposed boxing. Beneath the central sash on each wing, a
wooden door with glazing bars to the level of the flanking
windows' sills. Projecting, stone modillion cornice. Central
dormer of Palladian window type with date 1903 on enriched,
blind centre panel. Entrance extension with 2 sashes and stone
capped parapet. Decorated lead rainwater heads.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron area railings of
rectangular bars set diagonally with splayed tops and posts of
bars bent and riveted to form an arch.
Listing NGR: TQ3003282380
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