The Wellcome Institute Building in Euston Road
The Wellcome Institute Building in Euston Road
Record No
107471
Title
The Wellcome Institute Building in Euston Road
Description
View of the Wellcome Research Institute Building at 183 to 193 Euston Road in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, looking south from the corner with Euston Square. The neo-Georgian building was completed c1932 to a design by architect Septimus Warwick and built by Trollope and Colls Limited. It has a Portland stone facade with ashlar banding at the ground floor, Doric columns from the first to third floor, and Roman balustrading above the parapet entablature in front of the forth-floor penthouse. Embellished with fringed lions' heads, bronze torchieres wreathed with pairs of snakes (a symbol of hermetic arts, alchemy and pharmacy), and a gilt bronze sculpture of the eagle eye of the Egyptian god Horus over the entrance. The building is now named the 'Wellcome Collection', and was built to house the non-commercial research activities (scientific and historical) supported by the American-born pharmaceutical manufacturer Sir Henry Wellcome. Unity House is just visible on the extreme right, since demolished and replaced by the c2004 ten-storey, open plan, glass-roofed Gibbs Building as the new London headquarters of the Wellcome Trust biomedical research charity. Traffic can be seen speeding past the barrier on the central reservation.
Date of execution
1978
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_339_78_1016
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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