1868 – General Credit and Discount Company, 7 Lothbury, London
Still standing today, this Venetian Gothic style building was completed to a slightly different design than illustrated –
Still standing today, this Venetian Gothic style building was completed to a slightly different design than illustrated –
A three storey building, designed by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson,, constructed as commercial premises with shop space on the ground floor front.
Occupying the corner of Glenworth Street and Baker Place, and originally known as the Philisophical Buildings, and later named after Frances Ridley Havergal a composer of hymns.
Constructed in 1868 at a cost of £50,000, within the shell of the previous theatre,
House design for Michael Sears Esq., and south-eastern view published in The Building News, December 24 1868.
From The Building News: “THIS house, of which we give perspective and plans, has been erected,
Constructed for William Jury, proprietor of Jury’s and Shelbourne hotels, Dublin, and Imperial Hotel, Cork.
Designed as a mansion for James W. Temple. A fantastic victorian confection of brick, gables and chimneys,
During 1957 this house was taken over by the Admiralty for use by the staff of Commodore Naval Drafting and was named HMS Centurion.
Later facade and tower added to earlier chapel for the Magdalen Asylum at the foot of Leeson Street.