Barbican Estate
The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central London, England, within the City of London.Photo: Riodamascus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter with 4,000 residents
- Description: residential estate in the City of London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Barbican”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Barbican Arts Centre.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
University
Photo: Nevilley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and drama school located in the City of London, England. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts.
Barbican Arts Centre
Arts center
Photo: Nevilley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions.
St Paul’s Cathedral
Church
St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul in London, is an Anglican cathedral in London, England, the seat of the Bishop of London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Finsbury and Golden Lane Estate.
Finsbury
Suburb
Photo: Goodwillgames, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Finsbury is a district of North-Central London, forming the southeastern part of the London Borough of Islington. It borders the City of London. The Manor of Finsbury is first recorded as Vinisbir and means "manor of a man called Finn".
Golden Lane Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Golden Lane Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London. It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War.
Farringdon
Neighborhood
Farringdon is an area in the London Borough of Islington, situated immediately north of its border with the City of London. The term is used to describe the area around Farringdon station.
Barbican Estate
- Categories: grand ensemble, area of London, skyscraper, mixed-use building, and locality
- Location: City of London, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51946° or 51° 31′ 10″ northLongitude
-0.09238° or 0° 5′ 33″ westPopulation
4,000Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)Open location code
9C3XGW95+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 7628489780OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
6690593Wikidata ID
Q2319878
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Satellite Map
Discover Barbican Estate from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Barbican Estate” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Barbican Estate”
- Arabic: “باربيكان”
- Basque: “Barbican Estate”
- Belarusian: “Барбікан”
- Catalan: “Barbican Estate”
- Cebuano: “Barbican”
- Chinese: “巴比肯屋村”
- Czech: “Barbican Estate”
- Dutch: “Barbican Estate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باربيكان استيت”
- Esperanto: “Barbican Estate”
- French: “Barbican Estate”
- French: “domaine de Barbican”
- French: “Domaine de Baribican”
- German: “Barbican Estate”
- Hebrew: “ברביקן”
- Hebrew: “מרכז ברביקן”
- Indonesian: “Barbican Estate”
- Irish: “Barbican Estate”
- Italian: “Barbican Estate”
- Japanese: “バービカン・エステート”
- Japanese: “バービカン･エステート”
- Japanese: “バービガン・エステイト”
- Japanese: “バービカンエステート”
- Korean: “바비칸 에스테이트”
- Latin: “Barbacana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbican”
- Norwegian: “Barbican Estate”
- Russian: “Барбикан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barbican naselje”
- Slovak: “Barbican Estate”
- Slovenian: “Barbican Estate”
- Slovenian: “Barbican”
- Spanish: “Barbican Estate”
- Swedish: “Barbican (del av en befolkad plats i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Barbican”
- Thai: “บาร์บิคันเอสเตท”
- Turkish: “Barbican Estate”
- Ukrainian: “Барбікан”
- Urdu: “باربیکین اسٹیٹ”
- “Barbican Estate”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Speed Garden and Barbican Theatre.
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