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TQ 3080 NW and NE 72/13 ;73/14

CITY OF WESTMINSTER WELLINGTON STREET, WC2 London Transport Museum

(Formerly listed as The Flower Market)

15.1.73

G.V. II

Former market hall. 1871-72 by William Rogers of Cubitts with 1884-86 extensions to Tavistock Street and new west front. Red and white brick with stone and terracotta dressings, glass roofs. Italianate detailing. Tall single storey front to Wellington Street. three bays wide. Arcade of three large arches framing double doors in outer bays and window in centre. Each arch has glazed radiating fanlight and key block, the central window key block with letter "B" for Bedford beneath coronet. Modillion cornice and balustraded parapet. Interior structure of cast iron with glazed clerestories supporting slated roofs and skylights, planned in form of two lofty naves between three aisles. Short east nave returns to form transept crossing the west nave. The Italianate red brick, stone dressed. Tavistock Street front boldly expresses the main structure: the nave and aisle divisions are masked by pilasters between which are spaced semicircular arched openings, a pair of windows to each nave, a window to the west aisle and double doors with fanlights to the middle and east aisles. Above each nave bay is a pedimented attic with large lunette window. Similar feature ends the west transept on west front which is of the same design.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI. Covent Garden Market; Robert Thorne.

There are five wall-mounted Windsor lanterns to the Tavistock Court elevation of the building, the central one of which is a gas lantern. On the Tavistock Street elevation there are five electric Rochester lanterns suspended from the canopy, plus a gas-powered Railway lantern at the east end. This gas lantern is similar in design to the Rochester lanterns but is smaller in diameter and a rare survivor of its type.

Listing NGR: TQ3046780913