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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St John's Church - Notting Hill
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St John's Church - Notting Hill
The Ladbroke Conservation Area Appraisal says: "Outside St John’s church is a...
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
Sometimes our site photographs can be a little dull so we brought along some friends for this one. Photo taken at the 2011 Angel Canal Fe...
In 1997, as a condition of developing the RNH site, Bellway Homes (the developer) was required to create one acre of public open space - ...
The plaque fails to give the year of the Second Congress - it was 1847.
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