1 Queen Victoria Street

Building in London, England August 2026 1 Queen Victoria Street City Of London Magistrates Court. (15944767892).jpg 1 Queen Victoria Street London, England 51.513070 -0.090088 type:landmark_region:GB dms inline,title 1875 John Whichcord Jr. yes Grade II 1, Queen Victoria Street 10 November 1977 1358905 yes Office Italianate, palazzo 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, Queen Victoria Street, Non Civil Parish - 1358905 Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358905 2026-08-18 historicengland.org.uk en 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.The London encyclopaedia 1995 Macmillan 978-0-333-57688-5 Weinreb Ben Rev. London 631 Hibbert Christopher 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.The City of London 2002 Penguin Books 978-0-300-09624-8 Bradley Simon 1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press Harmondsworth 583-584 Pevsner Nikolaus1876 Sessional papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects (1875-1876) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Sessional_papers_read_at_the_Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects_%28IA_sessionalpapersr1875roya%29.pdf wikimedia.org 249-250 Roman items were found on the site after the previous buildings were cleared.Wilson D. R. Wright R. P. 1969 Roman Britain in 1968 https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0075435800071896/type/journal_article Journal of Roman Studies en 59 239 10.2307/299854 0075-4358 subscription 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.The Magistrates' Court https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/the-magistrates-court 2026-08-18 City of London en 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. References Category:Grade II listed buildings in the City of London Category:Court buildings in London Category:Italianate architecture in England Category:1875 establishments in England Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1875 Category:Bank buildings in the United Kingdom