Meridian House a Georgian former East India Company Almshouse, Poplar High Street, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London, UK.
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5616 x 3744 px | 47.5 x 31.7 cm | 18.7 x 12.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
12 August 2012Location:
Poplar High Street, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK.More information:
Meridian House at No. 115 Poplar High Street was built in 1801–2 by the East India Company, through its Poplar Fund, to accommodate the chaplain serving the company's newly rebuilt almshouses and the chapel (later the Church of St Matthias). The house is of stock brick, with Portland stone dressings that include a pediment carrying the arms of the East India Company. A long brick entrance porch was added in 1826, to plans by William Wilkins, East India Company Surveyor. It was removed in 1964 for road widening and replaced by a hood and columns designed by Cecil Brown, architect, and erected by R.W. Bowman Limited.