NOTES: The West Hackney Church was founded in the 1820s and sustained extensive bomb damage in 1940 during World War II. It was replaced by the Church of St Paul.
NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. This design is one of a number produced by Holden & Holford between 1945 and 1955 for the proposed reconstruction of the City of London following World War II.
NOTES: Plumpton Place is a moated Elizabethan manor dating from 1568. By the 19th century it had been reduced to a couple of cottages. In 1928 the house was restored and remodelled for Edward Hudson (the first owner of Country Life) by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the gardens landscaped in collaboration with Gertrude Jekyll.
NOTES: This neoclassical palace, built in 1799-1803 and attributed to Charles Cameron, replaced a Baroque palace built fifty years earlier by Andrey Vasilievich Kvasov for Count Kirill Razumovsky. It was restored in 1911 by Lukomsky.
NOTES: This neoclassical palace, built in 1799-1803 and attributed to Charles Cameron, replaced a Baroque palace built fifty years earlier by Andrey Vasilievich Kvasov for Count Kirill Razumovsky. It was restored in 1911 by Lukomsky.
NOTES: H. S. Goodhart-Rendel made alterations and additions to this house in 1913-14 for Sir Eustace Clarke Jervoise, Bt. The Idsworth Estate was purchased by the Clarke Jervoise family in 1789, whose descendants continued to live there until 1974.
NOTES: Completed in 1824, All Souls Church is the last surviving church built by John Nash. Goodhart-Rendel was responsible for its restoration and new fittings in 1923-1927, and following war damage in 1947-1951.
NOTES: Completed in 1824, All Souls Church is the last surviving church built by John Nash. Goodhart-Rendel was responsible for its restoration and new fittings in 1923-1927, and following war damage in 1947-1951.
NOTES: The noted portrait painter George Romney (1734-1804) had alterations made to this his house and studio in the late 1790s by Samuel Bunce. It later became the Hampstead Assembly Rooms and further alterations were made and again in 1930 by Clough Williams-Ellis when it became his home.