St. Johns Church was built in 1845 in the early English gothic style by John Hargrave Stevens and George Alexander. This site on the summit of Notting Hill had formerly been a view-point for spectators at the centre of the Hippodrome race course.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
W11, Lansdowne Crescent
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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St John's Church - Notting Hill
A Grade II listed building, which forms the centrepiece of the Ladbroke estat...
Architectural sculptor, wood carver, modeller, metalwork designer, medallist....
Architect. Seems to have specialised in churches and often worked in partners...
A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success pa...
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St John's Church - Notting Hill
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
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St John's Church - Notting Hill
The Ladbroke Conservation Area Appraisal says: "Outside St John’s church is a...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, 1856 - 1925, novelist, lived here 1885 - 1888. Greater London Council.
Greater London Council Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766 - 1840, architect, lived and died here.
There are two other plaques on the front of this building. They don't commemorate anything so we can't really enter them as memorials but...
This tile is about 4" square. It has been guerrilla-stuck to the wall just above the white 1911 City of Westminster mile marker, which c...
Actor, dramatist and theatre manager. Born Hereford. Left home and travelled to London with Samuel Johnson. As a friend of the Adams brothers he was in 1772, one of the first residents in their new...
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