Building in Old Broad Street
Building in Old Broad Street
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Record No
48719
Title
Building in Old Broad Street
Description
A view of number 123 Old Broad Street, City of London containing the archway entrance to Austin Friars by the turning to Throgmorton Street with the side of the nineteenth-century Midland Bank Ltd. at 119-122 Old Broad Street on the right. The Grade II listed building dates from the mid nineteenth-century and contains elements of nineteenth-century High Victorian Gothic. The archway consists of a shouldered segmental arch on corbels with rectangular columns surmounted by capitals containing carved foliage on either side. The name 'Austin Friars' on scrolls has been carved into the stone work above the arch either side of a carved City of London shield. Through the archway can be seen the classical architectural features of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century built number 6 Austin Friars. To the left of the archway is the entrance to 123 Old Broad Street consisting of a set of framed double wooden doors with a fanlight above the doors set into an arched frame. An elaborately carved keystone sits at the top of the arch surrounding the entrance door. The ground and first floor windows are bordered by gothic piers (either marble or stone) surmounted by capitals filled with carved foliage. Other windows include a number of gothic style sash windows with dormer windows set into the roof. Ground floor windows are both arched and pointed gothic in style with two containing carved decoration between the tops of the arches. An electric street light containing the City of London shield sits on the edge of the first floor of the building to the right of the picture. The building survives and became a pub known as the Phoenix. Number 6 Austin Friars is now known as Austin Friars House. The Midland Bank was replaced by a new office building in c1993.
Date of execution
1974
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_019_74_19106
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