{"id":2998,"date":"2011-08-02T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2011-08-02T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:40:41","slug":"16-london-tube-stations-listed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"16 London tube stations listed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Oxford Circus and\u00a0Covent Garden\u00a0are among 16 Underground stations given Grade II listed status today by Heritage Minister John Penrose, on the advice of English Heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They include several of the tube stations designed by Leslie Green whose \u2018ox-blood\u2019 red tile facades, pioneered the use of a strong and consistent corporate image which is recognised around the world.\u00a0 All the stations have historic and architectural significance, illustrating the development of the capital\u2019s Underground system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stations given Grade II status are:<\/p>\n<p>Aldwych,\u00a0Belsize Park,\u00a0Brent Cross, Caledonian Road,Chalk Farm,\u00a0Chesham, Covent Garden, Hendon Central, Oxford Circus &#8211; originally two separate stations (on\u00a0 the north-west corner of Argyll St and Oxford Street, and the north-east corner of Argyll St and Oxford Street including the office above),\u00a0Perivale,\u00a0Redbridge, Russell Square, St John\u2019s Wood, West Acton, and\u00a0Wood Green.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three other stations have had their listing upgraded from Grade II to Grade II* they are:<\/p>\n<p>Arnos Grove,\u00a0Oakwood, and\u00a0Sudbury\u00a0Town, all designed by the distinguished modernist architect Charles Holden, for the Piccadilly Line extension in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>DCMS Press Release: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\/news\/media_releases\/8345.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Circus and\u00a0Covent Garden\u00a0are among 16 Underground stations given Grade II listed status today by Heritage Minister John Penrose, on the advice of English Heritage. &nbsp; They include several of the tube stations designed by Leslie Green whose \u2018ox-blood\u2019 red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}