National Portrait Gallery London, England
Listed Building Data
National Portrait Gallery has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1066285
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 9 January 1970
- Name
- NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
- Location
- NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 29995 80611
- Easting
- 529995.0000
- Northing
- 180611.0000
Listed Building Description
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TQ 2980 NE and 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS ROAD, WC2 71/107 ;72/120 (West side)
9.1.70 National Portrait Gallery
G.V. I
Public art gallery. 1890-95 by Ewan Christian and J.K. Colling. Portland stone, slate, lead and glazed roofs. Freely composed Italian Renaissance design. 2 main storeys, basement and upper top lit galleries. 9 windows wide north front. The entrance is in short return with projecting lower pedimented entrance block picturesquely set on stepped angle of corner, semicircular arched doorway with Royal Arms carved in tympanum; short pilasters and portrait medallions above. The main north front has rusticated ground floor with square headed plate glass windows, upper floor with paired square headed windows, divided by granite shafts with distinctly Early English capitals, set beneath semicircular arches framing portrait medallions. String courses, cornice and deep parapet. The shallow south wing completes the east elevation of the National Gallery with giant engaged columns to bowed centre and Grecian pilasters to end pavilions, accounting for Grade I listing. West Duveen wing restrained ashlar addition of 1933 by the Office of Works. Ornate cast iron area railings. Interiors altered apart from staircase.
Survey of London; Vol. XX.
Listing NGR: TQ2999580611
