page_title: Harry Bell Measures
section_title: Central London Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Bell Measures / Central London Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Shepherd's Bush underground station - Central Line (September 2006)
context_page_description: Harry Bell Measures CBE MVO was an English architect.
context_section_description: Measures was responsible for a number of buildings on the original section of the CLR, many of which survive today as London Underground stations. He favoured terracotta as a building material, constructing his station buildings using factory-made ceramic blocks. This allowed him to design stylistically consistent structures quite economically. His tunnel platforms were lined with glazed ceramic tiles. Measures' techniques influenced the work of another contemporary Underground station architect, Leslie Green. His 1900 design for Oxford Circus station was a single-storey entrance on the corner of Argyll Street and Oxford Street, clad in pale pink terracotta and decorated in a Mannerist style. Today it is considered to be the best surviving example of Measures-designed station architecture and the entrance, and the building above it, is Grade-II listed. The red ceramic building on the western corner is by Leslie Green.
  Measures designed the following stations on the CLR:
  Shepherd's Bush (Central line) – building demolished and rebuilt to a completely different design in 2008.
  Holland Park – station building remains in use
  Notting Hill Gate – building demolished; new sub-surface station constructed
  Queensway – opened as Queens Road. The building remains in use
  Lancaster Gate – building demolished and rebuilt to a different design as part of a tower block development
  Marble Arch – Oxford Street entrance remains, but unrecognisable as a work by Measures
  Bond Street – Oxford Street entrance remains, but unrecognisable as a work by Measures
  Oxford Circus – the Grade-II-listed CLR building to the east of Argyll Street is a well-preserved example
  Tottenham Court Road – opened as Oxford Street. Not recognisable as a work by Measures when demolished in 2009.
  British Museum – station closed in 1933 when new Central line platforms opened at Holborn. Demolished in the 1990s.
  Chancery Lane – High Holborn station building remains but no longer used for access to the station
  St Paul's – opened as Post Office. Demolished in the 1930s.
  Bank – no surface building
  Measures designed the CLR's Wood Lane Power Station (now known as the Dimco Buildings), which is Grade II listed. He also designed the original station building for the railway's Wood Lane station, which opened in 1908 for the Franco-British Exhibition, although this was later modified to a design by Stanley Heaps. The station was closed in 1947 and the building has been demolished.
caption: Measures' original 1900 Shepherd's Bush station building (demolished 2008)
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