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Sicilian Avenue is a pedestrian shopping parade in Bloomsbury,
Sicilian Avenue is a pedestrian shopping parade in Bloomsbury, London
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, resembling an open air arcade, that diagonally runs in between Southampton Row
The A4200 is a major thoroughfare in central London. It runs between the A4 at Aldwych, to the A400 Hampstead Road/Camden High Street, at Mornington Crescent tube station.
Kingsway
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and Bloomsbury Way. It was constructed due to land clearance for a road widening project next to the avenue.
The street was designed by the architect Robert Worley in 1906 (completed in 1910) in a monumental Edwardian style, using Italian marble throughout, colonnades and turrets.
The place is well-preserved, and has a number of shops, pavement cafés and restaurants.
Above the commercial activities located on the ground floor, five storeys buildings decorated with terracotta bands are occupied by offices (formerly flats). Ionic column
The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite ...
s on plinths, carrying the street name in gold characters, have been placed at both the eastern and western entrances of the avenue.
Several scenes of the 2018 film ''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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'' were filmed in Sicilian Avenue, as was a scene from the 2017 film ''Wonder Woman
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''.
1–29, 6–20, 25–35 and 35A are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England
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. The three lamp posts on Sicilian Avenue are also listed Grade II.
See also
*Woburn Walk
Woburn Walk is a pedestrian street in Bloomsbury, London, that was designed by architect Thomas Cubitt in 1822, and it is one of the first examples of a pedestrian shopping street in the Regency era. Its name comes from Woburn Abbey, the main co ...
*Piccadilly Arcade
Piccadilly Arcade runs between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street in central London. It was opened in 1909, having been designed by Thrale Jell, and is a Grade II listed building.
The arcade is composed of twenty-eight shops on the ground floor. ...
*Royal Arcade, London
The Royal Arcade, in the upscale shopping district of Mayfair, London is an historic Victorian era shopping arcade that runs from 12 Albemarle Street to 28 Old Bond Street. Completed in 1880, it was designed by architects Archer & Green and i ...
*Burlington Arcade
Burlington Arcade is a covered shopping arcade in London, England, United Kingdom. It is long, parallel to and east of Bond Street from Piccadilly through to Burlington Gardens. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European sh ...
* Leadenhall Market
References
Streets in the London Borough of Camden Bloomsbury 1910 establishments in England Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden {{London-geo-stub