Buildings L

Place	Building and Architect(s)	Date and other details
Leeds, West Yorkshire	General Washington Hotel	1926 on stock list. more research needed.
Leeds, West Yorkshire	Beech Hotel	1931 on stock list. more research needed.
Leeds, West Yorkshire	Smith’s Arms	1926 on stock list. more research needed.
Leeds, West Yorkshire	Heaton’s Premises	1926 on stock list. more research needed.
Leeds, Commercial Street, (corner with Lands lane) West Yorkshire	Reynolds and Branson premises plus two more shops, one named Angelbeck. By Winn, Messrs Thos. and Sons	1904? The building, yellow and red terracotta still survives in good condition.
Leeds, West Yorkshire	Schools by A. Whitehead	1906. More information needed. Which schools were these?
Lincoln	GPO	pre 1914 mentioned in G & C brochure
Lincoln	Unknown building	1904… More information needed - could this be the building above?
Liverpool, Merseyside	70 Victoria Street	More information needed.
Liverpool, Merseyside	Victoria Street / Crosshall Street by Sherlmerdine, Messrs E. & H.	1880. The new building built for the offices of the Daily Post. More information needed. Demolished?
Liverpool, Merseyside, Victoria Street / Whitechapel corner	Imperial Buildings by Sherlmerdine, Messrs E. & H.	1880. The block which forms the corner block at the junction of Whitechapel and Victoria Street
Liverpool, Orphan Drive, Newsham Park, L6	The Sailor's Orphan's Asylum, now Park Hospital	pre 1871-74
London	International Tea Company Stores Headquarters	Included Circular glazed plaques about 18” in diameter of a partridge, Red Indian head, & Phoebe. Where was this?
London	The French Hospital	1909. More information needed.
London, Baker Street, Marylebone, front on Allsop Place	Metropolitan Railway Company Offices, Selbie House by Clark, C. W. and Wilcox, W.	1911. It is made of reinforced concrete faced in a white faience, There is a large coat of arms, supported by cherubs, over the door. Motifs with the interlaced initials of the Metropolitan Railway are each side of one of the doors.
London, Bermondsey	South London Mission	1930 stock list. More research needed.
London, Bermondsey	Unknown Warehouse	Decorated capitals
London, Bishopsgate (230), EC2	Bishopsgate Institute by Townsend, Charles Harrison	1892-4 The use of trees motifs in the decoration is reflected in the holly leaves in the towers. The towers themselves are very unusual the octagonal shape reappearing half way up the roof. (Pevsner, London 1, the City of London)
London, Bloomsbury, Russell Square	Imperial Hotel by Doll, Fitzroy	1905-11. Replaced by modern building. Hotel next door, The Russell Hotel, 1898, is by the same architect and could be G & C. This postcard shows what a splendid building it was. More information needed.
London, Chiswick	W. Barratt & Co. premises	1926 on stock list. more research needed.
London, corner of Old Bond Street and Piccadilly	No.1 Old Bond Street by Waterhouse, Alfred	1880 Buff terracotta used in an imaginative way. Motifs include flower tiles and panels of whole flower plants.
London, Cricklewood, Edgeware Road	Shops	1929 on stock list.
London, East Ham	Central Library	1930 stock list. Not known yet what this refers to.
London, East Ham	Unknown building.	1906. More information needed.
London, East Ham, High Street South	Swimming Baths extension	1912. More information needed. Only the façade now remains, the building having been replaced by a sports centre.
London, East Ham, 210 High Street	Fire Station	1913. This is very close to the Carnegie Library and the main corporation buildings.
London, East Ham, High Street South	Carnegie Library, A. H. Campbell, Borough Engineer.	1907. Opened on 26.3.1907. This building is part of the Corporation complex, & follows the style of the Town Hall & Public Hall. These are all decorated with similar ornate buff terracotta. (The earliest buildings are dated 1901)
London, Finsbury, Sans Walk	Hugh Myddleton Schools, now Kingsway College, T. J. Bailey	1893 Tall and massive three decker board school on an H plan, with plentiful yellow decoration. (Pevsner, p. 613, London:4)
London, Finsbury	Farringdon and High Holborn Station by Clarke, C. W.	The clean lines of the white faience are complimented by the narrow windows with matching oblong shapes in the design. Shops are built into the front of the station each side of the entrance.
London, Great Titchfield Street (Numbers 36/40)	Offices formerly Samson Clarke & Co. Ltd. Advertising by Constantine and Vernon	The building has buff faience. The corner doorway has pillars each side with an incomplete arch over them. An octagonal turret surmounts the corner of the building..
London, Hackney	Congregational Church	pre 1914, mentioned in G & C brochure.
London, Hammersmith, Hammersmith Road	St. Paul’s School, Waterhouse	1881-5 From the overpowering buildings of 1881-5 by Waterhouse there remain only the picturesque High master’s House and a lodge . The survivor’s are in Waterhouse’s favourite purple brick and orange terracotta with gothic detail, which he had used for the main buildings. (Pevsner, London:3, p209)
London, Hampstead Road (56-68), London, NW1 2PN	Sol’s Arms	Public house, demolished, decorated capitals
London, Holborn, Greville Street & Brooke Street, E.C., corner	Prudential Approved Society’s building, Mr. J. H. Pitt	1913..in matt Glazed terracotta… Holborn… new building… The entire building is faced with architectural terracotta, supplied by Messrs. Gibbs & Canning Ltd. of Tamworth, in conjunction with Mr. Alfred Whitehouse of Provincial Buildings, Leeds, the ground floor being in green glazed ware, the first floor in egg-shell glazed ware with shaded sage green bands & the rest of the building in egg-shell glazed ware…Gibbs & Canning style the material which they have supplied to face the new building for the Prudential Assurance Co.
London, Holborn	Prudential Assurance Building by Waterhouse	1878 Red terracotta all G & C
London, Holborn, Red Lion Square	Summit House by Westwood, P. J. & Emberton	Now Austin Reed Ltd. Headquarters. The plain line of the brown faience is broken by insets of oblong motifs. The orange-brown colour has a variety of shapes which breaks the monotony of the lines. This building has an art nouveau feel to it.
London, Kensington Court	Kensington Court Mansions	1882 -1896 app
London, Kensington	Central Institution of the City and Guilds London Institute by Waterhouse, Alfred	1881-4. Red terracotta. The frontage of the Central Institution of the City and Guilds London Institute, built 1881-4, evolved from Rundbogenstil to weighty Queen Anne topped by Dutch-style gables. The arms of principal manufacturing towns…. The most notable feature of the institute… was its contrasting colour – Gibbs and Canning being instructed to create a deep, strident red. (The Terracotta Revival) Is this part still identifiable?
London, Nottinghill	Nottinghill Station	1927 stock list.
London, Oxford Street (numbers 133/135)	By Simpson and Ayreton, Messrs	Interesting in its relationship to the Wardour Street building. More information needed as to date.
London, Peckham Road, Se5	Peckham Road Schools, Now Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and South London Gallery, Adams, Maurice B.	1896 - 8 (Gibbs & Canning Ltd. Illustrated Price List, February 1900) Fussy Jacobean and baroque
London, Peckham Road, SE5 8UH	Oliver Goldsmith School	Pre 1914 Mentioned in G & C brochure.
London, Pimner	International Stores	1933 stock list
London, Prince Consort Road (1-2), LONDON, SW7 2BZ (Kensington)	Jamaica High Commission (formerly 1-2 Lowther Gardens) by J. J. Stevenson	1877-8, Decorative red terracotta is found all over this building.. Evidence needed as to whether it is G & C terracotta.
London, Reslaw House, t ough street	Reslaw House	Six storey building with Reslaw Hats, a shop on the ground floor. Building could be late twenties. Could be Gt. Marlborough St. but not there now.
London, St. John’s Wood Road, NW8	Lord’s Cricket Ground, Verity, Thomas	1889-90 (Gibbs & Canning notes from former workers) A stately composition in brick and orange terracotta enlivened by corbel-head portraits. (Pevsner, London: 3, page 608) this remains to be confirmed as other sources contradict this.
London, South Kensington	Royal Albert Hall by Scott, H. and Townroe, R.	1867-71. Scott and Gilbert Redgrave laid great emphasis on the fact that the blocks were not smoothed over by Gibbs and Canning finishers, the resultant degree of coarseness ensuring a sense of spontaneity. Scott and Redgrave sent an artist to Tamworth to touch up the blocks and the intricate detail before they were fired.’ (Terracotta Revival)
London, South Kensington	Victoria and Albert Museum by Cole	1871, Gibbs and Canning worked alongside Minton Colin Campbell, Minton Hollins and Blanchard. It is not yet known which parts are Gibbs and Canning. The tiled ceiling of the entry from Exhibition Road beneath the Science School, [was] designed by James Gamble and made by Gibbs and Canning) 1868-70 Large looking glasses by Gibbs and Canning were another feature of the room [the Refreshment Room], with majolica surrounds designed by James Gamble, who also included the coat of arms of Sir Henry Cole in majolica over the eastern doorway. More research needed.
London, South Kensington	Natural History Museum by Waterhouse, Alfred	1881, interior and exterior. The terracotta work on this building has to be seen to be believed.
London, Spanish Place	New Flats	1893 More research needed.
London, St. James	Buckingham Palace	ornamental parapets (eastern façade?) (Mabel Swift, Tamworth Herald article) Information so far anecdotal. More research needed.
London, St. John’s Wood	St. John’s Wood Metropolitan Railway Station	More research needed.
London, Swiss Cottage	Swiss Cottage Station	1928 stock list.
London, The Strand	Savoy Hotel by Collant, T. E. & Kemp, S.	Difficult to tell which, if any, is Gibbs and Canning. ‘In an old board room at the Glascote Works, …are photographs of buildings bearing the work of Gibbs & Canning, … sections of … the Savoy Hotel … erected to the architects design … & then dismantled & transported to London. (Tamworth Herald Cutting of 1^st August 1969)
London, Tottenham Court Road	Brook House	1929 stock list for very small quantity. More research needed.
London, Wardour Street (numbers 201/203)	Macaura, Pembroke Hall, Pulsocon Premises by Simpson and Ayreton	Interesting in its relationship to the Oxford Street building. More information needed as to date.
London, Waterloo, now Schiller International University, Royal Waterloo House, 51-55 Waterloo Road, London SE1 9TX	The Royal Waterloo Hospital for children and Women by Warring and Nicholson	The central section of this building is made up of three floors of balconies enclosed by arches in pale red terracotta (some are now filled in with windows). The side sections of the building have terracotta decoration above and below the windows. The original lettering remains on the buildings, making up three bands of tiled words. Evidence anecdotal - More research needed.
London, Westminster, St. Margaret’s Mansions	St. Margaret’s Mansions	pre 1900, mentioned in 1900 G & C brochure. More research needed.
London, Westminster, St. Marylebone	Edgeware Road Metropolitan Station by Clarke, C. W. A. R. I. B. A.	Although the cream faience is comparatively plain the overall impression is of careful design. A circular window, textured corners and the inclusion of small brown diamond add interest.
London, Westminster, Victoria Street, SW1	Victoria Palace Theatre by Matcham, Frank & Co.	1911 This splendid theatre in white faience merits closer inspection. It has ornate decorations and has two statues adorning the top of the building.
London, Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel	Free Library (Is this the same building as the Passmore Edwards Library?)	pre 1914, mentioned in G & C advertisement. more research needed,
London, Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel	Whitechapel Picture Gallery by Townsend, Charles Harrison	1901 The main front is of buff terracotta by Gibbs and canning of Tamworth. The general idea seems to be that of a large tower; but the great entrance archway, not being in the centre of the front, rather destroys the balance of the whole. The bases of the turret are lightened by the introduction of a little foliage design in relief.
Luton, Bedfordshire, Park Square	Shop Front	1931 stock list. more research needed.