Chartered Accountants' Hall
Office building in London, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chartered Accountants' Hall is a Grade II* listed building located at 1 Moorgate Place in the City of London. It is the headquarters of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). The Hall is one of the richest examples of late Victorian architecture in the City and has been praised for its seamless integration of sculpture.[1]
Chartered Accountants' Hall | |
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General information | |
Type | Office building |
Architectural style | Neo-Baroque, Brutalist |
Address | One Moorgate Place |
Town or city | London, EC2 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Opened | 10 May 1893 |
Owner | Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Sir John Belcher RA, with extensions by J. J.Joass and Sir William Whitfield |
Designations | Grade II* listed building |
It established the fame of its architect, John Belcher. Chartered Accountants' Hall was Belcher's first building in a more monumental Baroque Revival style, drawing on Baroque architecture which he had studied while travelling in Europe.[2]
Some sources[3][4] attribute the building as a joint design by Belcher in conjunction with Arthur Beresford Pite, who was a partner in Belcher's practice. The two men were friends and admired each other's work. A pupil of Belcher's at the time claimed that Pite's energy and personality had "very strongly" influenced Belcher and had left its impression above all on the Chartered Accountants building.[5] In The Alliance of Sculpture and Architecture (1993), the authors begin a discussion of the influence of Pite upon Belcher's new Baroque style for the Hall by stating:
To what extent the design was the work of Arthur Beresford Pite [...] has never been satisfactorily established.[6]