St Martin in Fields Secondary School London, England
Listed Building Data
St Martin in Fields Secondary School has been designated a Grade II* 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1236019
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 24 February 1958
- Name
- ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL
- Location
- ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS SECONDARY SCHOOL, 1-4, ST MARTIN'S LANE WC2
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30131 80577
- Easting
- 530131.0000
- Northing
- 180577.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. MARTIN'S LANE, WC2 72/129 Nos. 1 to 4 consec. 24.2.58 (St. Martin in the Fields Secondary School.) (Formerly listed under St Martin's Place) G.V. II* Former National School. 1827-30 by G.Ledwell Taylor but no doubt to a design by John Nash. Stucco, slate roof. Elegant Ionic design; part of Nash's isolation of St. Martin's and the Strand Improvements. 3 storeys. 7 windows wide south front. 2 window wide return to Adelaide Street with plain square headed doorway. Rusticated podium - ground floor. Recessed glazing bar windows to ground floor with flat, voussoired and keystoned arches. Main floor with archivolt arched windows with moulded imposts, small square 2nd floor windows; both storeys articulated by giant fluted Ionic pilasters, coupled flanking end bays, rising from plat band and carrying entablature with dentil cornice and blocking course. 2 window return with similar treatment. The frieze of entablature is inscribed in fine lettering "St. Martin's National Schools". Part of St. Martin's Parochial Buildings, a typically varied Nash composition. Survey of London; Vol. XX.
Listing NGR: TQ3013180577
