Location Name - Goldsmiths' Centre, The
42 Britton Street
London EC1M 5AD

Location ID: 10141631

Phone 1:020 7566 7650

Website:
http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org (Goldsmiths' Centre)

Email: [email protected]

 
Styles: Period 1850-1900, Period 2000-2010, Modern (21st Century), Victorian

Categories:
CITYSCAPES, ROOFTOPS AND VIEWS - Cityscapes
CITYSCAPES, ROOFTOPS AND VIEWS - Rooftop views
COMMERCIAL - Conference centres
EDUCATIONAL - Study centres
MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND INSTITUTES - Galleries
RESTAURANTS, PUBS AND CLUBS - Cafes
ENTERTAINMENT - Event Spaces

Description:
A Grade II listed Victorian school board building from 1872 converted back into a school for teaching goldsmithing, silversmithing and jewellery. One space retains the original Victorian sliding screens, floorboards and fireplace. Joined by a glass atrium with polished limestone floor to a contemporary new build clad in stone, bronze and glass. There is also a glass link bridge on the first floor between the old and new parts of the building. The new building has five floors with a large exhibition room, a fourth floor boardroom, a conference room and a biodiversity roof garden. Cafe with terrace on the ground floor. There are views of the City including St Paul's, the Old Bailey, the Shard from the fourth floor.

Jurisdictions::
Islington

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