VICTORIAN

1840-1901

Victorian architecture refers more to the period than a particular architectural style. There were several styles prevalent that were revivals of previous designs, including Gothic, Italianate, Romanesque, Renaissance, Queen Anne, and Neoclassical.

Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel, E1

Founded in 1901 to 'bring great art to the people of the East End of London', the Whitechapel Gallery occupies a distinctive Art Nouveau style building designed by Charles Harrison Townsend.

Rachel Whiteread's commission for the facade of the building, ‘Tree of Life’, was unveiled in June 2012.

**Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX**

Lawrence House, Millbank, SW1

Lawrence House forms part of the Millbank Estate - a humane, Arts and Crafts socialist housing design that was inspired by Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" and Northern European features.

**Lawrence House, Millbank Estate, Westminster, London SW1**

ST GABRIEL’S MANOR, CAMBERWELL, SE5

A large Art Nouveau former college building, dated 1900. Originally four storeys with brick bands in 2 tones a fifth floor was later added.

A symmetrical arrangement with canted oriel bays on brackets rising to frame the central bay, which has projecting gabled porch with freely-adapted Tudor ornament.

Grade 2 listed.

**St Gabriel’s Manor, Cormont Road, Camberwell SE5**

17 Camberwell Green, Camberwell SE5

An impressive turreted Grade II Listed corner building, built in 1899 in the Baroque Revival style as a branch of the London County Bank, now a doctors surgery.

UAL CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS, Peckham Road, Camberwell SE5

The Art school and gallery dating from 1896-8 by Maurice Adams. An exuberantly detailed Baroque frontage of brick and stone dressings, bandings and sculptured ornament.

**Camberwell College of Arts, 45-65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UF**

Sandford House, Shoreditch e2

The Boundary Street Estate was built between 1894-1900 after the London County Council had taken control over social housing in London in 1889 - it was one of the earliest social housing schemes built by a local government authority.

The estate spirals outwards from Arnold Circus, a central circus and Sandford House, a grade II listed five storey mansion block, has a modest but dignified curve and embellishments.

**Sandford House, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, London E2 7JT**

DULWICH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, SE22

Opened in April 1887 and designed by local architects Henry Jarvis & Son, the hospital reflected latest thinking in medical practice, where the high patient mortality rate could be reduced with good ventilation and sunlight.

The hospital had a symmetrical pavilion layout consisting of a large central administrative block (illustrated here) flanked by two ward blocks on either side that linked by an open walkway acting as a spine. The Nightingale wards were designed as narrow blocks with tall windows at regular intervals along both sides to allow cross-ventilation.

**Dulwich Community Hospital, East Dulwich Grove, London SE22 8PT**

CADOGAN SQUARE, Chelsea SW1X

Cadogan Square is an example of Queen Anne revival architecture of the 1870s and 1880s favouring red brick rather than stucco (found elsewhere in the neighbour), which was carried out by the Cadogan Estate and Hans Place Estate.

Seen here is No. 72 (left) by architect: R Norman Shawn and built in 1878. On the right is no. 70 by architect: A J Adams and built two years after.

**Cadogan Square, Chelsea, London, SW1X 0EA**

Elizabeth Tower,

Houses of Parliament, Westminster SW1P

Elizabeth Tower, originally referred to as the Clock Tower, but more popularly known as ‘Big Ben’ was raised as a part of Charles Barry’s design for a new Palace of Westminster, after the old palace was largely destroyed by fire in 1834.

Although Barry was the chief architect of the neo-gothic palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the Clock Tower. Construction began in 1843 and was completed in 1859.

The tower is designed in Pugin's Gothic Revival style and is 316 feet (96.3 m) high making it the third tallest clock tower in the UK.

**Elizabeth Tower, 9748 Abingdon Street, London SW1P 3JY**

KING’S CROSS STATION

King’s Cross Station was opened to passengers on 14 October 1852. Designed by Lewis Cubitt to be simple and functional it was at the time the largest railway station in Britain.

Two train sheds both 800ft long, 105ft wide and 71 ft high are closed by a plain brick screen 216ft long with two large arched windows and with a porch of six arched openings, three each side of the square Italianate clock tower 112ft high which is the stations only ornament.

**King’s Cross Station, Euston Road, London N1 9AL**

MILNER SQUARE, BARNSBURY N1

Side-hall entrance plan terraced houses in an austere Neoclassical style, forming western half of an oblong garden square.

1841 by Roumieu and Gough; pilastered entrances were altered in the 1930s and the entire square remodelled and restored in 1978 by Islington Council.

Grade 2 listed.

**Milner Square, Barnsbury, London N1 1TW**

st george’s square, PIMLICO SW1V

Pimlico is known for its garden squares, grid of streets and stuccoed terraces - all laid out by Cubitt and which was begun on 1825.

Seen here are two of Cubbit’s five storey stuccoed terraced houses on St George’s Square The square was originally laid out in 1839 by Cubitt as two parallel streets, but by 1843 had been developed into a formal garden square lined on two long sides and two sides of an angle in the north. It was London’s first residential ‘square’ that opens to the River Thames.

Cambridge Street, Pimlico SW1V

The grander Pimlico terrace to the right of this illustration is typical of the area. At four stories it shows a full range of classical details; a columned portico, rusticated stucco to the ground floor, bottle balustrades, pedimented windows to the first floor, and dentil cornice to the parapet, behind which the roof structure is largely hidden.

On this street of predominantly stucco houses also sits no. 76-78 Cambridge Street, designed in 1969 by architects Peter Foggo & David Thomas, who shared a passion for the work of Mies van der Rohe. It is a small infill site comprising of two maisonettes framed by an external concrete grid with a smoked glass infill (reflecting the buildings opposite).

**74 - 78 Cambridge Street, Pimlico SW1V**

BOUTIQUE, CHURTON STREET, PiMLICO

Victorian shopfront study with a Halloween window display - a Venetian masked costume at the Terrence Higgins Trust ‘Boutique’ charity shop

RAILTON ROAD, BRIXTON SW2

The slither-end of a tapering Victorian terrace, hugging the side of a railway arch.

CAMBERWELL GROVE, Camberwell SE5

Camberwell Grove forms one of London’s most elegant and well-preserved row of Georgian and Victorian houses.

Seen here, a stuccoed Italianate grade II listed villa on this historic South London street.

**Camberwell Grove, Camberwell, London SE5**

LOMOND GROVE, CAMBERWELL SE5

A sturdy utilitarian Victorian tenement block, dating from the late 1890’s

**Chester Court, Lomond Grove, Camberwell, London SE5**

CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET, CAmberwell SE5

Victorian shopfront study with cashpoint, bananas and an art deco window surround

**United, Camberwell Church Street, London SE5**

FRIERN ROAD, EAST DULWICH, SE22

A work in progress - renovating a late VIctorian semi detached house.

**Friern Road, East Dulwich, London SE22**

OGLANDER ROAD, EAST DULWICH, LONDON

A new contemporary extension mimicking the roof profile of this Victorian house.

PECKHAM RYE STATION FORECOURT SE15

The narrow, cluttered and dimly lit concourse to the impressively grand Peckham Rye Station.

The station itself is built in the Victorian continental renaissance style. The concourse is soon to be transformed into something a bit more generous and welcoming

Rye Lane, PEckham, SE15

Derelict Victorian building and shopfront study, with flyposters and a bus stop

LEE TERRACE, BLACKHEATH, SE3

The Lawns - an art deco apartment block and a grade 2 listed early-mid nineteenth century semi with half lunette attic window and a prostyle porch with square columns

VYSE STREET, BIRMINGHAM B18

A purpose built works and showroom on Vyse Street in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, with an unusual gothic elevation with a mullioned arcade across the top. Circa 1880.