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56 - 57
Fleet Street, London, UK
Architect
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Percy Tubbs, Grahame
Burnell Tubbs & Donald Aver Duncan |
Date Built
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1927 |
Location
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56 - 57 Fleet
Street
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Description
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As
the
sculptures of the Saltaire and the lion suggest
this building has Scottish connections. It
was in fact the London home of the Glasgow
Herald in the days when Fleet Street was the
centre of Britain's newspaper industry.
The ground floor is faced with polished black
granite and decorated with a gilded bronze
frieze. The three-storey bay is topped by
a moulding featuring six lion heads. The
Architectural Review from 1927 describes the top
of the building as having a two-storey roof
projection with, "three slotted
openings defined by Egyptian-styled pediment;
the sides and corners treated as banded
rustication and slightly battered, giving it
an almost Mayan air."
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