Founded by William Lancaster, Baron Pollock and Sir Arthur Jelf. For the first 11 years this was based in rooms over the parish offices in Putney High Street. Lancaster then funded the freehold site and the purpose-built art school. Architect: Thomas William Willis, opened 2 October 1895. 1924 the school was taken over by the LCC, and has subsequently been run by the ILEA in the 1960`s and then by Wandsworth Council.
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Putney School of Art
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Sir William Lancaster
Sir William Lancaster, 1841 - 1929, co-founder of the Putney School of Art, M...
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William Morris (designer)
Designer, author and visionary socialist. Born Elm House, Walthamstow, Essex. The family moved to Woodford Hall in 1840 and to Water House in 1848. He moved in with his friend Edward Burne-Jones f...
Person, Art, Craft / Design, Literature, Seriously Famous, Iceland / Faroe Islands
15 memorials
Hablot Knight Browne, 'Phiz'
Artist. Born Lower Kennington Lane, exact date in doubt. Illustrated 10 of Dickens' books. Took the pseudonym Phiz to pair with Dicken's early pen-name, Boz. Also worked for other novelists and f...
1 memorial
1 memorial
T. A. Greeves
Architect and artist. Born Thomas Affleck Greeves. Studied at the Cambridge School of Architecture, but never actually designed any functional buildings. Instead he produced a series of fantastical...
1 memorial
John Hungerford Pollen
Decorative artist. Born 6 New Burlington Street to Richard and Anne, sister to Charles Cockerell. Ordained as an Anglican priest in 1845, but converted to Roman Catholicism in1852. He worked on man...
1 memorial
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N7, Manor Gardens, Royal Northern Gardens
In 1997, as a condition of developing the RNH site, Bellway Homes (the developer) was required to create one acre of public open space - ...
2 subjects commemorated
Henry James Tunstall
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
George Francis Coles
From the parish of St Peter's in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a rifleman aged 41.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Miss Agnes M. Gibbons
Miss Agnes M. Gibbons Organising Secretary of the Ladies' Guild in 1932.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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