St Peter'S Hospital

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HENRIETTA STREET, WC2 72/55 15.1.73 Nos. 25 to 29 (consec.) St. Peter's Hospital G.V. II Hospital. 1880-82 by J.M. Brydon with amendments imposed by the Bedford Estate's architect Henry Clutton. Red brick with rubbed and carved brick trim and Portland stone dressings, tiled roof. Queen Anne style in the Shaw manner. 5 storeys. Symmetrical 11 window wide front with narrow central and end pavilions, the latter as towers. Ground floor has main entrance in central pavilion with block dressed archivolt arched doorway framed by Doric columns with blocked shafts and flanked by cartouches. Shavian window patterns with mullioned and transomed glazing bar sashes, tripartite arched centre light transomed windows and oriels to 1st and 2nd floor above entrance. Pilasters order 1st and 2nd floors of wings framing pairs of bays, rising from ground floor cornice and supporting main entablature over 2nd floor; attic storey with secondary order and modillion crowning cornice, large dormers in steep roof. The central pavilion is finished off with a pedimented Dutch gable and the roof behind crowned by a weathervaned cupola. The end pavilions finished off with ogee capped turrets. Plain front to St. Paul's Churchyard with similar pattern of fenestration. As designed the ground floor had shops, incorporated in hospital in 1930 remodelling of interior. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3028180798