Outlets, Spurgeon, Byron, Shakespeare & a Café: Extra footage from my stroll which started at Vauxhall on Friday twenty eighth July 1989 with 9 Elms Riverside. The earlier submit was Rail, Housing, Matrimony & A Warning.
The six homes between Woodmere Grove and Shirley Grove at 56-66 on the north aspect of Lavender Hill had been constructed at a slight angle to the street. Every of them additionally has a rounded nook on the south-east, making them look from the east aspect as a collection of spherical towers, some unusual fort beside the street. In contrast to the opposite terraces on the street this makes them stand out as particular person buildings, although store extensions on the bottom flooring current a straight line on the pavement.
These homes had been constructed as part of Seymour Terrace in round 1870 as non-public homes with basements on part of an property purchased by Clapham surgeon and GP Henry Meredith Townsend who lived close by on Clapham Rise. The bottom flooring was transformed into retailers in 1882. The Survey of London which supplies extra element describes them as “a minor masterpiece of road structure.“
Hartington Terrace on Queenstown Highway continues to be there although the shopfronts have modified somewhat over time they’re nonetheless principally the identical. No 43 on the nook has misplaced these ‘ornamental’ blinds and appears very far more sober, not welling lavatory fittings reasonably than wine. This complete space of Battersea, Park City, was the guts of a single farm, Longhedge Farm, which started to be developed after the opening of Battersea Park in 1858. Its lengthy and complicated story is instructed in nice element within the hyperlink cited.
Developments on the southern finish included some giant villas near Clapham Widespread, and the builders of the northern half below Philip William Flower (1810–72) initially hoped to make this a middle-class space with its location between Clapham and Chelsea however later needed to decrease their expectations largely due to railway enlargement within the space and develop it as houses for working-class artisans.
An Act of Parliament in 1863 allowed the laying out of Queens Highway (recognized since 1939 as Queenstown Highway) and constructing on the property continued over the subsequent 30 or so years. One of many two main builders was Walter Peacock who started Hartington Terrace (named by Cyril Flower, (1843–1907), Philip’s eldest son and first Lord Battersea) in 1885. No 43 was constructed as a pub and there was a parade of seven retailers with stabling and workshops behind. A number of extra retailers had been added to the north in 1888 by one other builder.
Stanley Grove at left was an earlier growth with homes constructed by quite a lot of builders in 1867-8.
The church continues to be there, set again from Battersea Park Highway, however the short-term trying constructing occupying a lot of the image has been changed by a reasonably nondescript block with a big floor flooring betting store.
The land for the church constructing was, in line with the Survey of London, acquired in 1868 “from the Crown’s Battersea Park buy, for use ‘as a department from Mr Spurgeon’s tabernacle’. ” One of many main Baptist figures of the age, Spurgeon was for 38 years pastor of the New Park Avenue Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) on the Elephant & Citadel. He was a strong preacher and prolific author and supporter of many sensible schemes to enhance the lot of the city poor in addition to missions akin to this to transform them to his Calvinistic Christianity.
The primary constructing erected was this, constructed as a lecture corridor seating nearly 500 by Lambeth builder and architect William Higgs, and it was 25 years later {that a} chapel was added to Battersea Tabernacle. This occupied the house between the corridor and Battersea Park Highway and was demolished in all probability within the Nineteen Seventies having been broken by wartime bombing. The corridor was bought for £25,000 by members of Calvary Temple in Camberwell and have become Life Tabernacle.
Someplace on the stretch of Battersea Park Highway between Propert’s blacking manufacturing unit at 142 ({photograph} not on-line) and the villas at 445-7 I made this image of terracotta ornament in panels on a constructing, however I can not discover it. Sadly though my notice says Battersea Park Highway it doesn’t give a road quantity. From the image I believe it should had been just a few programs above road degree.
The central panel appears extra generic, with a vessel with seems to have a fruit tree rising out of it, maybe with apples, however the two roundels on the sides are maybe extra attention-grabbing. I believe they in all probability signify some commerce or different, however can’t determine which. Maybe somebody studying this will clear up the thriller and make a remark.
This exceptional pair of villas, now apparently a resort, had been constructed within the 1850s and the architect is assumed to have been Charles Lee. The 2 are Grade II listed. The gable has a particular scalloped bargeboard or ornament and this continues for a brief size alongside all sides of the home to a low wall bearing an urn.
This café on Battersea Park Highway, I believe within the parade between Stanmer St and Balfern Avenue, appears an acceptable place to pause my stroll which can proceed in later posts. Though it appears to be like as if it was taken from inside I believe it was in all probability closed and I used to be standing in a recessed doorway.
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