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Survey of London Monograph
… MARKOE. Miss B. A. MEINERTZHAGEN. The METROPOLITAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION. GEORGE H. MONSON. G. VAUGHAN MORGAN. …
Survey of London: Volume 37, Northern Kensington
This is first of the Survey's four volumes to cover Kensington, an area synonymous with Victorian architecture. It concerns the area to the north of Kensington High Street, extending as far as Kensal Green, where large-scale building development took place between the 1820s and 1880s. Here can be traced in some detail the evolution of London's nineteenth-century suburban housing. Among the many examples described are the fashionable Italianate villas of the 1820s and '30s in Campden Hill and Holland Park; the opulent large mansions of 'Millionaires Row' in Kensington Palace Gardens; and the red-brick 'Domestic Revival' artists' houses of the 1860s and after in the Melbury Road area. Victorian ecclesiastical design can also be studied in its many variants, in the area's churches, chapels and convents, including the Greek Revival architecture of Kensal Green Cemetery.
Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1
These volumes cover the part of the parish of St James which lies south of Piccadilly, between Haymarket and Green Park. St James's was post-Restoration London's Court suburb, laid out during the reign of Charles II. The story of its development is fully explored, with accounts of Wren's parish church, the aristocratic houses in St James's Square, the theatres on the west side of Haymarket, the gentlemen's clubs of Pall Mall, and some of the West End's most prestigious private palaces, including Spencer House and Bridgwater House.
Survey of London: Volume 36, Covent Garden
Covent Garden has a special significance as the birth-place of modern town planning in London. Inigo Jones's Italianate Piazza, designed in the 1630s for the 4th Earl of Bedford, was unlike anything the capital had seen before, and provided the prototype for the laying-out of London's suburban estates for centuries to come. Based on a detailed study of the surviving fabric and the Bedford Estate's archives, this volume recounts the story of the Piazza's evolution (and eventual redevelopment), including the building of St Paul's Church, the area's principal monument. In addition to the Piazza and surrounding streets, the volume also describes the buildings of the Covent Garden Market, at the time the nation's principal market for horticultural produce, since removed to Nine Elms, Battersea.
Survey of London: Volume 42, Kensington Square To Earl's Court
This volume completes the Survey's study of Kensington. It describes the expansion of building development south and west towards Earl's Court from the original late-17th-century 'Old Court Suburb' around Kensington Square and Kensington High Street. The area has a great variety of house-types and architectural styles: surviving 1680s houses in Kensington Square; brick-and-stucco Regency terraces in and around Edwardes Square; George & Peto's large and flamboyant Flemish-inspired brick-and-terracotta family homes in Harrington and Collingham Gardens; and later mansion flats. In addition to the residential architecture, the volume also traces the history of the commercial and light-industrial quarter to the west, near the Kensington Canal and West London Railway; the fashionable shopping area on the south side of the High Street, with its well-known department stores, such as Barkers and Derry & Toms; and a rich collection of churches and chapels. The volume ends with a retrospective chapter, considering some of the themes and building trends common to Southern Kensington as a whole.
Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
An account of the history and buildings of these two prominent London establishments, from their origins in the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.
An abstract of Feet of Fines for the County of Sussex
… Thomas Perot of Hertfeld and Joan his wife; a messuage, 2 gardens, 34 acres of lands, 11 acres of meadow, 4 acres of … v. Roger Cradell and Alice his wife; a messuage, 2 gardens, 10 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 30 acres of … Voys v. Thomas Ayloue and Agnes his wife; 4 messuages, 2 gardens, 12 acres of land, 10 d. rent in Horsham; to John …
An abstract of Feet of Fines for the County of Sussex
… and Alice his wife v. William de Echingham; 3 messuages, 2 gardens, 35 acres of land, 1 rood of meadow, 3 acres of wood …