1 Queen Victoria Street
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General information | |
| Type | Office |
Architectural style | Italianate, palazzo |
| Location | London, England |
| Coordinates | 51°30′47″N 0°05′24″W / 51.513070°N 0.090088°W |
Completed | 1875 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | John Whichcord Jr. |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | 1, Queen Victoria Street |
| Designated | 10 November 1977 |
| Reference no. | 1358905 |
1 Queen Victoria Street is a Grade II listed Victorian building that stands on the corner of Queen Victoria Street and Walbrook near Bank Junction in the City of London.[1]
History
The building was constructed between 1873 and 1875 following the establishment of Queen Victoria Street as a cut-through from the Victoria Embankment to the Bank of England.[2] It was built for use by the National Safe Deposit Company. Designed by John Whichcord, the building required the use of iron reinforcements for its vaults.[3][4] Roman items were found on the site after the previous buildings were cleared.[5]
The building has since been used for other purposes. It hosted the Bank of New Zealand's City of London offices between 1889 and 1988 and is now the City of London Magistrates' Court. Despite the name, the functions of the court are carried out by the City of Westminster, focusing generally on financial crime due to the many financial institutions in The City.[6]
Design
The building employs an Italianate and in particualar Palazzo style, and is built in terracotta. A 1920s mansard replaced the earlier decorative stonework of Whichcord's original design. Culpin Culpin & Partners partly transformed the vaults into cells for use by the court between 1988 and 1991.[3]
References
- ↑ "1, Queen Victoria Street, Non Civil Parish - 1358905 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
- ↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher, eds. (1995). The London encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-333-57688-5.
- 1 2 Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002). The City of London (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 583–584. ISBN 978-0-300-09624-8.
- ↑ "Sessional papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects (1875-1876)" (PDF). wikimedia.org. 1876. p. 249-250.
- ↑ Wilson, D. R.; Wright, R. P. (1969). "Roman Britain in 1968". Journal of Roman Studies. 59: 239. doi:10.2307/299854. ISSN 0075-4358.
- ↑ "The Magistrates' Court". City of London. Retrieved 2026-08-18.