St Martin'S Vestry Hall

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. MARTIN'S LANE, WC2 72/128 24.2.58 No. 5 (St. Martin's Vestry Hall.) (Formerly listed under St Martin's G.V. II* Place) Vestry Hall. c.1827-30 probably to a design by Nash. Stucco, slate roof. Pedimented neo-classical composition, part of Nash's isolation of St. Martin's and the Strand Improvements. 3 storeys and basement. Broad 3-window wide front. Channelled ground floor with later C.19, stone, Doric coupled-column porch to right. Ground floor has recessed tripartite glazing bar sashes with panelled dividers, in architraves; similar to 1st floor in segmental arched recesses with panelled lunettes. 2nd floor glazing bar sashes in architraves. Pseudo-pedestal to 1st floor with blind balustrading below sills; main entablature as base to full width pediment with sculptured bas relief in tympanum by W. Pitts. Cast iron spear-and-mace head area railings. In the vestibule bust of Richard Miller by Rysbrack, 1727. Part of St. Martin's Parochial Buildings, a typically varied Nash composition. Survey of London; Vol. XX.

Listing NGR: TQ3011280577