Lloyd's Avenue
Lloyd's Avenue is a street on the eastern edge of the City of London . It runs in a north-south direction and connects the thoroughfare Fenchurch Street with Crutched Friars .
Lloyd's Avenue is centrally located in the city's former maritime trade district. It is named after the Lloyd's Register of Shipping , which is on the road, as well as the Lloyds Bank , which is independent from the register, and the nearby Lloyd's of London . Commercial buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries shape the cityscape. Lloyd's Avenue is the focal point of the listed Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area . Only one pub, the East India Arms , indicates that the East India Company once had its London center here .
history
Lloyd's Avenue itself wasn't built until 1899 when city planner James Dixon, in collaboration with Lloyd's Regist of Shipping, laid a street through what was once a row of East India Company warehouses. The construction of the street coincided with the settlement of Lloyd's Register of Shipping at what is now the corner of Fenchurch Street and Lloyd's Avenue. It was the successor to a parallel street a few meters further west, on which the church of St Katharine Coleman was, and which is still preserved today as a footpath from St Katharine's Row through the backyards of Lloyd's Avenue.
The area on which Lloyd's Avenue is located was part of the Roman Londinium . The forum was a little west of the road, the main road to Colchester a little north. Excavations in and on the street from the 2nd to 4th centuries reveal the remains of representative stone houses and warehouses. However, no further traces of settlement can be found until the 11th century.
There are written records of the church of St Katharine Coleman from the year 1157. In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, this part of the city was not as densely populated as areas further to the west. Maps show lots with larger gardens and well spaced apart areas that occupy the entire area south of Fenchurch Street.
A synagogue in typical Georgian style was built almost next to the church in 1725 . In the early 19th century, the East India Company began filling entire blocks south of Fenchurch Street with warehouses. Only St Katharine, the synagogue and a few smaller houses directly on Fenchurch Street survived; all other buildings were demolished for the East India warehouses. As a central supply route, the East India Company created a street a little west of what is now Lloyd's Avenue.
buildings
Especially at the northern end of the street towards Fenchurch Street, there is an impressive self-contained ensemble of neoclassical buildings from the turn of the century 1800/1900. Some of these are only preserved as facades, but convey a picture of representative commercial buildings from that time.
The oldest surviving structures are the remains of the former Church of St Katharine Coleman , of which the 18th century grilles and gateposts on St Katharines Row remain.
The oldest surviving building is the East India Arms pub from 1829 on Fenchurch Street. The street is characterized by Edwardian commercial buildings from the turn of the century 1800/1900, which are all representative. The most important individual structure, however, is Lloyd's Register of Shipping from 1900, which was extensively expanded at the beginning of the 21st century in the style of the 21st century.
The west side of the street is mostly occupied by Lloyd's Registry. Connected to a neoclassical house from 1901 is a much larger extension from 2000. The postmodern building won several architecture prizes.
From Coronation House (4 Lloyd's Avenue) from 1904, the facade is still preserved. Behind it is a modern office building by Lloyd's Registry. The house was originally designed by the architect Barrow Emmanuel , who created a symmetrical neoclassical facade. The neighboring houses No. 3 and have a similar appearance and a similar time of origin.
No 8 Lloyd's Avenue is the last building Richard Norman Shaw built. The former main building of the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers was built in 1907/1908. The neoclassical structure with Doric columns resembles Shaw's building on Parr's Bank in Liverpool. Originally an early concrete building, which was built according to the Kahn system, only the facade of this building has been preserved since 1971–1972, while the facade hides office architecture from the late 20th century.
The Marlow House (1 Fenchurch Street) is striking . This building dates from 1929. A 1920s -style glass and metal facade is topped with a much more old-fashioned Tudor-style frieze with wine motifs. Only the facade of this building has been preserved; in the 1980s a law firm built a modern office building behind the facade.
Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area
The Conservation Area includes all of the houses on Lloyd's Avenue, including their backyards and outbuildings, as well as a few adjacent houses on Fenchurch Street.
Remarks
- ↑ a b c d Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner: London 1, The city of London, 1997, London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-300-09624-8 , p. 535
- ↑ a b City of London: Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area ( Memento of the original dated October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 31, 2012 p. 11
- ↑ a b City of London: Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area ( Memento of the original dated October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 31, 2012 p. 9
- ↑ a b c City of London: Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area ( Memento of the original dated October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 31, 2012 p. 10
- ↑ City of London: Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 31, 2012 p. 16
- ↑ City of London: Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 31, 2012 p. 8
Web links
- City of London: Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area , January 31, 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 43.7 " N , 0 ° 4 ′ 41.4" W.