St Andrews Parochial Schools Wren House And Attached Railings

TQ3181NW 798-1/102/783 24/10/51

CAMDEN HATTON GARDEN (East side) No.43 Wren House and attached railings

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Formerly known as: St Andrew's Parochial Schools HATTON GARDEN. Includes: No.8A ST CROSS STREET. Church, now offices. c1670 replacing St Andrews Holborn after the Great Fire of 1666, adapted as a Chantry School c1696, gutted during Second World War, rebuilt internally but facade restored. Erected by Lord Hatton, reputedly to designs by Wren. Brown brick with stone rusticated quoins. Brick band below parapet. C20 tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Double fronted, 3 windows. 6-window return to Cross Street. Hatton Garden facade with slightly projecting central bay with stone doorcase with consoles, pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment. To either side stone corbel supports with painted stone boy and girl figures in C18 costume. Above, semicircular arched window with stone key, the bay topped by an open stucco pediment. Bays to either side with transom and mullion windows with flat arches and stone keys on ground floor, 1st floor with semicircular arched windows having stone keystones. Stone capped parapet. Cross Street elevation similar but 3 window central bay, no pediment, figures missing and left hand bay with square headed windows on ground and 1st floor. Ground floor window to right of door only one with keystone. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings with geometrical panels to areas.

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TQ3181NW ST CROSS STREET 798-1/102/783 No.8A 24/10/51

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See under: No.43 Wren House and attached railings HATTON GARDEN.

Listing NGR: TQ3134681880