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Central Road
St.George
rebuilt
1639, Fifteenth century door, 14th century windows, 17th-century glass in the east window and an
18th-century pulpit and altar-rails. The present church
was built of brick in 1932 as a two-purpose church hall; wooden hall added as a
temporary church in 1938; low link in between, 1976
Hatfeild Mead,
borough housing byA.J. Thomas of the 1950s
Primary
School 1910
Church hall,
wooden church temporary church in 1930, Scorpio martyr
Morden Grange.
Late Georgian
Earl Haig Memorial Homes. Percy Morley Horder design for
Housing Association for Officers Families. Collegiate style. Less institutional. By Grey Wornum and Louis de Soissons, 1931
onwards. Neo-Georgian ranges of two and three storeys around large grassed
quadrangles.
Neo Georgian houses in green spaces with portrait roundels of western front
commanders. Opened by the Prince of Wales.
Old School House,
1731, a simple brick cottage with an inscribed tablet; later c19 additions
behind.
Flats. Enclosed
by a boundary wall, yellow brick flats with mansard roofs built by the Housing
Association for Officers' Families, c. 1928 and later.
Epsom Road
George Inn. 16th century stuccoed with an early c 19
elevation masked by extensive alterations of 1931
Green Lane
St.Helier station. 5th January 1930. Between Morden South and Sutton Common
on Thameslink and Southern Trains. Built by the
Southern Railway plus a deal with London Electric Railway in in 1929., quite remarkable,
concrete blockhouse station building – anticipating brutalism by 40 years. It is a long way from the centre of
St.Helier.
Freight
yard. 12 acres given for this by LCC and
two more by Southern Railway.
Hatfield Mead
School 1910.
London Road
Merton Technical College 1971/2. Pleasantly sited on
the edge of Morden Park. 1971-2 by the Borough Architect’s Department, A.
Jadhar, R. Toole. Long, neat
curtain-walled range with projecting middle storey; unsightly one-storey
workshop and dustbin excrescences.
Church farm cottage
Morden South Station. 5th January 1930. Between St.Helier and South Merton on
Thameslink and Southern Trains Southern Railway plus a deal with London railway. A subway crosses through the embankment to
the station, built in 1929, however the nearby tube station, means its custom has
always been limited.
Depot built behind the station for the northern line but train company
hostilities meant it remained very limited.
Baiul Futuh Mosque. Ahmadiyya Muslim Association.
Purpose built largest mosque in Europe. Dome, minarets and 13,000
worshippers. Islamic and European
architecture also taking in buildings on an old dairy site. Halls, library,
crèche and studios. Built on the site of an Express Dairy Depot. The old dairy chimney was the basis for the
minaret.
Railway Bridge.
The line between South Merton and Morden South crosses the main road on an
impressive 120ft skew lattice girder bridge.
Morden Park
Princess Royal
Morden Park House.
Registry Office. Council park's department offices. A fine house of
1770 set in extensive grounds. Built by John Ewart, merchant and distiller, on
part of the Morden Hall estate. Five-window front of two storeys with a
parapet; brown brick. Arched ground-floor windows in yellow brick-arched
recesses. Venetian doorway with Tuscan demi-columns and pediment, linked to the
pedimented window above by a balustrade and scrolls. Seven bays, with
symmetrical one-storey canted bay-windows at either end, one heightened in the
later c19. Large two-storey bow-window at the back. The front door leads to an
entrance hall connected by a screen of two Ionic columns with a staircase of
imperial type, starting in one flight and continuing in two. From the
half-landing one enters the saloon with the bow-window. On the ground floor are
the drawing room and library, with a half-domed recess with columns. Dining
room and kitchen. At the back of the house a courtyard with two small round
houses and the remains of a crinkle-crankle wall.
Opposite the church
almshouses of 1731 for 12 poor children.
Mound. Possible barrow or Romano British Mound. Used
as a garden feature.
Railway Lines
Railway from
Morden South station goes from the embankment into a cutting for the approach
to St.Helier.
Siding south of Morden South station
to a private siding for an Express Dairy bottling plant. Milk tankers came here
from Acton Western Region. This continued until 1978 and the depot closed.
St.Helier
1928 London County Council overspill Garden City ideas, original
name after monastery, Residential district built 1928-36 as a garden
suburb to rehouse people from inner London
named in honour of Lady St Helier. a London County Council alderman who
worked tirelessly to relieve poverty until her death in 1931.
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