Essex Watergate Closing South End Of Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Triumphal gateway.
Essex Watergate Closing South End Of Street
- WRENN ID
- tall-jade-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Triumphal gateway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 3180 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ESSEX STREET, WC2 74/10 Essex Watergate 14.1.70 Closing south end of street GV II G.V. II "Triumphal" gateway. c1676 built by Barbon as a terminal feature to his "polite" Essex Street development, screening his commercial development of the wharf below. Damaged during World War II, the gateway was repaired and incorporated into the 1953 building across the end of the street. Pseudo-Roman pomp and circumstance. Giant order of fluted Corinthian pilasters on pedestals supporting archivolt arch. A typical piece of Barbon bravura "pour epater les bourgeois".
Listing NGR: TQ3109780907
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