Former Danish-Norwegian Consulate in Wellclose Square
Former Danish-Norwegian Consulate in Wellclose Square
Record No
121631
Title
Former Danish-Norwegian Consulate in Wellclose Square
Description
View of the of the north end of the former Danish-Norwegian Consulate at 20 Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, looking west. The three-storey building has sash windows, a transom light over the front door, a rendered finish, and features a Coade stone bas-relief panel including cherubs with farm animals and playing the panpipes, sheaves of wheat, and rodents which was affixed c1796, with a moulded frieze above. A sign beside the door advertises 'flats to be let'. The building was the former offices of the timber trading firm of the German-Norwegian brothers Georg and Ernst Wolff, with Georg (1736–1828) becoming the Danish-Norwegian consul in 1787, which was taken over by his son, Jens, until the consulate's closure in 1807. The consulates eventually split, with the Danish consulate relocating, finally, (with Iceland) to Sloane Square, and the Norwegian Consulate, finally, to Belgrave Square. The building was, later, the home of Major Goff, Surveyor to the Tower Royalty, and subsequently utilised by the London Fire Engine Establishment, later the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, surviving until 1968 when it was demolished and redeveloped as the Shapla Primary School. The bas relief panel was later removed, and transferred to the Norwegian Embassy by the Greater London Council.
Date of execution
1911
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_404_80_4189
Accession No
3669c
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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