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Latitude: 51.5164 / 51°30'59"N
Longitude: -0.1145 / 0°6'52"W
OS Eastings: 530923
OS Northings: 181408
OS Grid: TQ309814
Mapcode National: GBR LB.FK
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.Y4TV
Plus Code: 9C3XGV8P+H5
Entry Name: New Hall
Listing Date: 24 October 1951
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379298
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478667
Also known as: Great Hall
ID on this website: 101379298
Location: Holborn, Camden, London, WC2A
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
Tagged with: Hall
CAMDEN
TQ3081SE LINCOLN'S INN
798-1/106/1040 (West side)
24/10/51 New Hall
GV II*
Banqueting hall with offices. c1843-5. By Philip Hardwick with
PC Hardwick & John Loughborough Pearson. Red brick with blue
diapers and stone dressings. Slate roof with tall, decorative
brick chimneys. Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and semi-basement. Rectangular plan of
7-bay hall, plus lobby and entrance. Linked at north end to
adjoining Library (qv). Gabled south end with 7-light,
traceried window flanked by square twin towers. East and west
elevations with five 8-light square-headed windows, separated
by stone dressed buttresses topped with decorative stone
finials rising through the embattled parapet, and 2 large bay
windows at the high table end. 2-tier glazed fleche with
weathervane. Lobby with octagonal turret in roof. Entrance
approached by 3 flights of steps.
INTERIOR: hall with hammer-beam trusses. Screen at south end;
on north wall fresco "Justice, The Hemicycle of The Law
Givers" by G F Watts, 1852-9.
HISTORICAL NOTE: one of the earliest secular expressions of
the revived historicism of Victorian architecture, made more
correct in style by PC Hardwick who took over the commission
when in 1843 his father became seriously ill. New Hall was
restored c1984-87 by Peter Locke & Tony Dyson of Donald Insall
Associates, particular attention being given to the roof and
fresco.
Listing NGR: TQ3092781408
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