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London, England – February 14, 2026. A close view of the central section of the Atkinson Building facade at 24 Old Bond Street, Westminster, London, showing a prominent oval or circular window set within an elaborately carved stone surround. The surrounding facade stonework features carved Gothic and Arts and Crafts ornament — including foliage, scrolled brackets, and carved panel inserts — in the richly detailed manner characteristic of Vincent Harris's decorative programme for the building.The oval window at the centre of the Atkinson Building's facade — a device more commonly associated with Baroque architecture — is an unexpected element in a Gothic Revival composition, suggesting the eclectic and non-historicist character of Harris's design approach for this building. As commentators have noted, Harris's scheme at Atkinson's was not a strict historical Gothic Revival but rather an original amalgam of Tudor, Elizabethan, Gothic, and Arts and Crafts elements, in which the freedom of the Gothic tradition to accommodate inventive and idiosyncratic ornament was exploited to create a building of unique character.