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© Mr Anthony Rau
IoE Number:
206183
Location:
KINGSLEY HALL, POWIS ROAD E3 (east side)
BOW, TOWER HAMLETS, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr Anthony Rau
Date Photographed:
31 October 2006
Date listed:
27 September 1973
Date of last amendment:
27 September 1973
Grade
II
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1. POWIS ROAD E3
4431 (East Side)
Kingsley Hall
TQ 3782 12/318
II
2.
Circa 1928. Architect C A Voysey. Red brick with blue brick ground floor and
rendered coved cornice. Roof not visible. Irregular building and facade. 4
storeys, 3 bay facade with slightly recessed, northern 1 bay tower. Centre double
doors with narrow flanking windows under flat hood. Above 3 small windows below
iron balcony on corbels which fronts 3 large round arched windows. Top floor has
a band of smaller windows below the eaves.
Plaque records that Mahatma Gandhi stayed here in 193l.
Interesting interior with vaulting above windows and stained glass window (by
Eugene Yoors, Belguim) to George Lansbury.