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Smith Street, London SW3.
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St Simon Zelotes, Chelsea, SW3
Victorian Gothic
Promenades and Streetscapes
London SW3, Chelsea
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Church consecrated 1859, Milner Street .
Bldg of Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings designed by Jos. Peacock 1858–9, built by White of Pimlico, in idiosyncratic Dec. style. Shallow sanctuary, aisled and clerestoreyed nave, with higher E. bays of aisles forming transepts galleried until 1896, W. bell turret. Polychrome interior with much naturalistic carving by J.L. Jacquet, and rich E. end with glass by Lavers & Barraud and furnishings by Hailand & Fisher. Organ by Walker.
This building really caught my eye as we came out of the Brompton Oratory, A fine looking building, in keeping with the grander buildings around it.
London Promenades & Streetscapes,
London SW3, Chelsea
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This is the 'hidden face' of respectable Victorian buildings, built before drains were invented: there was no need for drains or water taps because the servants will have brought in drinking water in containers and will have taken the 'slop' or the "used water' to dispose of it in the street, below.
When, much later, bathrooms and toilets were installed and kitchens with running water, all those drains had to be installed on the outer walls, at the back of the building and sometimes even at the front...
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3,
Ranelagh Gardens
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Ranelagh Gardens (alternative spellings include Ranelegh and Ranleigh, the latter of which reflects the English pronunciation) were public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea, then just outside London, England in the eighteenth century.
The Ranelagh Gardens were so called because they occupied the site of Ranelagh House, built in 1688-89 by the first Earl of Ranelagh, Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital (1685–1702), immediately adjoining the Hospital; according to Bowack's Antiquities of Middlesex (1705), it was "Designed and built by himself". Ranelagh House was demolished in 1805 (Colvin 1995, p 561). Fulham F.C. played on this very site for home matches between 1886-8 when it was known as the Ranelagh Ground.
In 1741, the house and grounds were purchased by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Sir Thomas Robinson MP, and the Gardens opened to the public the following year. Ranelegh was considered more fashionable than its older rival Vauxhall Gardens;
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Royal Court Theatre (Walter Emden and Bertie Crewe, opened 1888), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
London Borough of Chelsea & Westminster,
Park Walk & Paulton Square,
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades & Streetscapes,
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Christ Church was built by architect Edward BLORE (1787-1879) as a Chapel of Ease for St Luke's. It hwas consecrated in 1839 and It became an independent church in 1880.
It was servicing a congregation of working class and lower-middle class parishioners.
Today the parish is a residential area for professional people and the houses are pitched to seven digits prices towell over 1.5 million pounds
Edward Blore was previously commissioned by William IV to take over from Nash in finishing the work on Buckingham Palace: Blore was responsible for building the East wing of the royal palace, thus enclosing the courtyard.
Blore is also famous for his work on Lambeth Palace and Westminster Abbey, as well as the building of Alubka Palace for Prince Vorontzov in the Crimea.