St Peter’s to the Thames: The fifth put up on my stroll which started at Kew Bridge Station on tenth of December 1989. The earlier put up was Chiswick Waste, Stamford Brook, British Grove & St Peter’s Sq..
St Peter’s Church is on the south-east nook of St Peter’s Sq. on Black Lion Lane and is now uncomfortably near the Nice West Highway, this part constructed nicely over 100 years later within the late Nineteen Fifties. In 1829 the church would have been surrounded by timber, meadows and market gardens with a nice stroll to the close by Thames. Now you have to seach for the subway to get throughout one of many busiest roads out of London.
The architect was domestically born Edward Lapidge, whose father was an assistant to Functionality Brown as a panorama gardener at Hampton Court docket. In addition to a wider observe he additionally constructed different native church buildings at Hampton Wick and Putney. The Classical church constructing is Grade II* listed and William Morris who lived close by had a hand in redecorating its inside in 1887.
This 1959 concrete sculpture by Karel Vogel, (1897-1961) a Jewish Czech-born artist who fled right here from the Nazis in 1938, was Grade II listed in 2016. It was commissioned by the London County Council’s Patronage of the Arts scheme when the Nice West Highway was being constructed via St Peter’s churchyard in 1959 “present visible amenity in compensation for” this main street scheme. The sculpture, solid concrete over a steel framework, took Vogel over a 12 months to finish and was extraordinarily controversial within the native space.
By 2016 the sculpture had significantly deteriorated and Radio Prague reported in 2023 on its deliberate renovation at a value of over £50,000. The restored statue now wanting in grand form was unveiled in July 2024.
This 1909 constructing (described by some property brokers as Victorian) has now been transformed into ‘unique’ flats.
You’ll be able to see the signal for The Dove pub which has its entrance on the footpath right here at 19 Higher Mall. This Grade II listed public home is nicely price a go to. It has most likely been serving beer because the 1730s and was purchased by Chiswick Brewery in 1796. Though a captivating sufficient place its itemizing most likely extra displays its tales and associations somewhat than any explicit architectural advantage. After all because the very detailed The Dove, Hammersmith – a tiny thriller on Zythophile states its reputation has resulted in “a lot of the “info” printed about it being demonstrably fallacious.”
Additionally price a go to is the William Morris Society Museum, simply behind me as I made this image within the decrease ground of the home he lived in for the final 18 years of his life, renaming it as Kelmscott Home. Probably he loved the services of The Dove (then known as The Doves, apparently by an error of the sign-maker) together with the marbles recreation of bumblepuppy.
This pier is on the nook of Furnivall Gardens. Beforehand this had been mouth of Hammersmith Creek which ran north so far as King Avenue. The fishermen right here had been changed by noxious industries within the nineteenth century, with brewery malthouses to its west and a lead mill on the east. The creek was stuffed in by Hammersmith council in 1936 and so they constructed a brand new city corridor throughout it which opened in 1939 – nonetheless there going through the Nice West Highway.
Wartime bombing eliminated the Phoenix Lead Mills and the Buddies Assembly Home with its burial floor and the world was opened as a public park, Furnivall Gardens, named for Frederick James Furnivall, one of many founders of the Oxford English Dictionary in addition to Working Males’s School and the Hammersmith Rowing Membership (now renamed after him) in addition to the possible inspiration for ‘Ratty’ within the Wind within the Willows.
The pier right here was opened concurrently Furnival Gardens in 1951 for the Pageant of Britain to allow folks from the world to board steamers to take them to the Pageant. After the tip of the Pageant there was little use for it. Finally the PLA offered it to the proprietor of the Dove pub, and it was prolonged to offer extra moorings.
Past the moorings at Hammersmith Pier – Dove Pier you may see the southern finish of Hammersmith Bridge and mansion blocks alongside Castelnau Highway.
Extra from my stroll in a later put up.
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