This continues my posts on my stroll in Walworth on eighth January 1989. The earlier publish was Folks’s Well being, Chapel Furnishings, Sutherland Sq. & Groce Bros.
Liverpool Grove was designated as a conservation space in 1982 because the Octavia Hill (Liverpool Grove) Conservation Space. The road runs east from Walworth Street with this vista of St Peter’s Church, then goes south of the church, persevering with to the east so far as Portland Road (named after an earlier Prime Minister, William Cavendish-Bentinck, third Duke of Portland.)
The world to the east of the Walworth Street was first developed across the finish of the wars in opposition to Napoleon, and Liverpool Grove will get its title from Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool who was the Tory Prime minister from 1812 to 1827. As far as I’m conscious he had no explicit reference to the realm. His virtually 15 years as prime minister makes him the third longest serving after Sir Robert Walpole and William Pitt the Youthful. A quite odder declare to fame is that he was the primary of our prime ministers to put on lengthy trousers.
The event of the realm created a necessity for a brand new church, and Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was appointed as architect with St Peter’s Church being consecrated in 1826. It’s now Grade I listed. It was the primary church designed by Sir John Soane and badly broken throughout WW2, then rebuilt in 1953.
There are some stays of the primary early Georgian and later Victorian housing within the space however the largest space round St Peter’s Church belonged to the Church of England and by the tip of the nineteenth century had grow to be one in every of LOndon’s most densely populated slums – or ‘rookeries’ as they have been recognized.
In 1904 the Church requested Octavia Hill, (1838-1912) one of many main housing reformers because the 1860s to supervise the redevelopment of the realm. She set new requirements for working class housing and the property consists of cottage fashion terrace homes and three-storey tenement flats, some reflecting a Regency Type and others Arts and Crafts, in Liverpool Grove and side-streets from it together with Saltwood Grove, Value Grove, Portland St, Wooler St,
Though the property has a reasonably excessive inhabitants density, Hill was additionally impressed by the Backyard Metropolis Motion and the Arts and Craft village fashion improvement included the planting of many avenue bushes; they or presumably their later replacements are very clear in my pictures.
Her improvement from 1904-1914 stays largely intact and not less than externally little altered, with solely a really small space of Second World Warfare bomb injury being rebuilt to an identical design. There was quite extra redevelopment of the encompassing space within the Nineteen Fifties.
The world is an extremely properly preserved instance of early twentieth century social
housing, with a really totally different scale to a lot of the big blocks of the period by housing associations resembling Peabody.
This stroll will proceed in a later publish.
The primary publish on this stroll was Elephant, Faraday, Spurgeon & Walworth Street.
Tags: Arts & Crafts, conservation space, Backyard Metropolis, housing, Liverpool Grove, London, London Pictures, Octavia Hill, peter Marshall, Sir John Soane, Soane, Southwark, bushes, Walworth, working class housing, Value Grove
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