Bloomsbury Hotel - Great Russell Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.045 W 000° 07.737
30U E 699192 N 5711274
This building was built for the YWCA but is now a hotel.
Waymark Code: WMCA0B
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/14/2011
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The corner stone shows the building was constructed for the YWCA (see photo). The cornerstone reads:
"The Young Women's Christian Association
Central Club
This stone was laid by
Her Majesty the Queen
On the 25th day of June 1929
By love serve one another"
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The building was built as a YWCA residential club between 1928 and 1932 and the architect was Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Built for the Young Women's Christian Association, the building is constructed from brown brick & stone under a slated hipped roof with dormers. It is built on four storeys with an attic and basement. Seven windows with 13-window return; the 3-window bays at each end of the return form projecting wings.
Symmetrical facade and return in Neo-Georgian style. Gauged flat brick arches with stone keystones to flush framed sash windows (32-pane on ground & 1st floor, 16 on 2nd & 3rd). Main central entrance with stone doorcase comprising Corinthian pilasters carrying entablature with open segmental pediment dated 1932, above which a stone dressed window with triangular pediment. Doorway approached by double flight of steps with wrought-iron balustrade. Stone cornice. Subsidiary entrance on return with stone doorcase with brick banded pilasters. Angel head keystone to window above.
Interior: original features survive of a functional nature. First floor double storey concert hall.
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