Main Entrance Gateway, Railings And Attached Lodges To The British Museum is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. A Victorian Architectural gateway.
Main Entrance Gateway, Railings And Attached Lodges To The British Museum
- WRENN ID
- young-lancet-crag
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Architectural gateway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/699 (North side) 14/05/74 Main entrance gateway, railings and attached lodges to The British Museum (Formerly Listed as: GREAT RUSSELL STREET Railings and main entrance gateway of the British Museum)
GV II*
Main entrance gateway, railings & porters lodges. 1849. By Sydney Smirke. Cast-iron and granite. Large, elaborate, cast-iron double vehicle entrance gates flanked by single footgates. Engaged, fluted and foliated Corinthian columns, and pilasters, to piers surmounted by urns. Main piers of granite containing small porters' lodges with plain square-headed entrances. Elaborate cast-iron railings on granite plinth with granite interval piers, the standards in the form of candelabra on bases with clawed feet.
Listing NGR: TQ3013981619
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