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Some Buildings in Bermondsey, London |
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Click on thumbnail photos to enlarge
Notes in italics are from London 2: South by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus
Pevsner
(1983)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
Other information is from a variety of sources. |
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Shad Thames is a street
of old warehouses that starts at the southern end of Tower Bridge, runs
east and then makes a right-angled turn south. Many bridges connect the
warehouses on the first stretch. Known as Butler's Wharf, dating from
1871-73, the buildings have been largely converted into apartment
blocks, the bridges forming balconies.
Pevsner writes of Shad Thames: The most dramatic industrial street
surviving in London. The towering warehouses and lattice wrought-iron
bridges crossing at all heights still remain much in their Victorian
state. Doré has immortalized the Dante-cum-Piranesi
appearance of such areas. ...
The name Shad Thames
may be a
corruption of 'St John-at-Thames', dating from a settlement of the Order
of Knights Templar in the 12th century. |
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The west end of Shad Thames begins with
the Anchor Brewhouse, founded 1789,
much rebuilt after a fire in 1891, closed 1982. The pictures
show riverside and Shad Thames side. The last picture is of Horselydown Square
on the opposite side of Shad Thames. See
separate page on Horselydown Square. |
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The river side of Butler's Wharf
along Shad Thames, following on from the
Anchor Brewhouse. The last picture is the street side where Shad Thames
turns south. |
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Sandwiched within Butler's Wharf is the
Design Museum, a warehouse transformed by Conran Roche in 1989,
the design giving a strong suggestion of the 1930s. |
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The stretch of Shad Thames going south
starts with modern buildings and then becomes warehouses of the second
half of the 19th century.
First picture is the David Mellor Building
(1990-1) by Michael Hopkins and Partners. Second picture is next door,
of the same period, by Conran Roche.
Then the Victorian warehouses. St George's Wharf has discrete bands of blue brick and a cornice, and
very small cast-iron windows. ...
More about
Shad Thames in Wikipedia. |
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Queen Elizabeth Street
runs parallel to the first stretch of Shad Thames. It contains the
following development:
The Circle by CZWG Architects, completed
1990. This development of 302 apartments and a few shops and offices
stretches along Queen Elizabeth Street, and in the centre widens into a
circular space. Here the four quadrants of the circle are clad in
blue-glazed bricks. To some they look like (menacing?) owls. |
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Balconies bracketed on pine logs.
Light gold metal windows.
The second picture shows the building at the junction with the south
stretch of Shad Thames.
In the middle of The Circle: Jacob - The Circle Dray Horse by
Shirley
Pace, unveiled 1987.
On a bronze plaque on the pedestal:
The famous Courage dray horses were stabled on this site from the early
nineteenth century and delivered beer around London from the brewery on
Horselydown Lane by Tower Bridge. In the sixteenth century the area
became known as Horselydown, which derives from horse-lie-down, a
description of working horses resting before crossing London Bridge into
the City of London. Jacob was commissioned by Jacobs Island Company and
Farlane Properties as the centrepiece of The Circle to commemorate the
history of the site. ... |
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East of Butler's Wharf along the river is
China Wharf, a conversion into flats and offices
by CZWG Architects, 1988. It has
pagoda look on the river side. The rear end of a
cantilevered boat is a balcony, at about the height of a very high
spring tide. The land side of the building has deeply fluted white
concrete with inset windows. The eastern facade in the last picture has
stepped windows and then an inset so that the building appears to be
pierced by Reed's Wharf. |
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Views across the river east from Butler's
Wharf.
First picture, riverside flats in Wapping. Second picture, Canary Wharf area. |
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Tower Bridge, Southwark. 1886-94 ...
by Sir John Wolfe Barry, engineer, and Sir Horace Jones, architect. The
lowest bridge on the Thames ...
See separate page on Tower Bridge |
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City Hall and More London
See separate page |
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Bermondsey Street,
the old High Street connecting the riverside with the parish church,
still has a recognizably village character, even though the older houses
are interrupted by C19 warehouses ... The best
house is at the N end: No. 78, late C17, with a pretty oriel
window and a double overhang; the top floor weatherboarded. Around it,
an irregular C18 group with stuccoed fronts ... Further S a plain
terrace dated 1828 ... |
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No.191, set back next to the church,
also early C19, four storeys with fine Tuscan cornice and giant
pilasters ...
St Mary Magdalene has medieval origins but was
mostly rebuilt in the 1670s. The whole exterior was stuccoed in
1830, and it was then also that George Porter remodelled the W front in
a gimcrack but charming, wholly unscholarly Gothic Revival. The
aisles project as far W as the W tower and end in castellated lean-to
roofs. The tower has pinnacles and a top stage with four gables and a
tiny lantern. ...
Fashion and Textile Museum 2002.Colourful modern
building in the middle of Bermondsey Street designed by the Mexican
architect Ricardo Legorreta for fashion designer Zandra Rhodes. Flats on the upper
floors.
More
at arcspace.com. |
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Carmarthen Place behind Bermondsey
Street. Built 2006. Made of prefabricated solid timber panels,
10cm thick, with batten cladding. The windows and doors are cut into the
timber panels.
More at architects' site. |
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The headquarters of Weston Williamson
Architects on the corner of Tanner Street and Tower Bridge Road.
51 Tanner Street appears to have a wood-clad frontage, but which on
closer inspection shows a repeat pattern in the grain. |
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Victorian railway arches at London Bridge
Station along St Thomas Street. |
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Hays Galleria (between
Tower Bridge and London Bridge) is a mall of cafes, restaurants, shops
and offices. It is a refurbishment of what was once a water inlet for
river barges loading and unloading by the Victorian warehouses on either
side. The renovation was designed by Michael Twigg-Brown and Partners
(1986). |
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Guy's Hospital
Separate Page |
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Map of area |
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