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Bute Avenue
All Saints. Italianate church built 1907-8 by John Kelly,
the gift of Mrs Lionel Warde. It is a large, very red church of brick and terracotta
the style Italian Early Christian or Romanesque. It has a Very lavish interior,
the sanctuary up a high flight of steps, with marble floor, screen, and seats,
and carved reredos plus a baptistery with its own ambulatory around a vaulted
immersion font and, on the upper level, a small font supported by big angels. Imposing
campanile with a large figure of Christ. Bombed.
It is on the site of Bute House, built in
the 18th and the former home of George III’s Prime Minister, the
Earl of Bute. This was purchased in 1894 by Mrs Loetita Warde of Petersham
House who knocked it down and built this church partly as a memorial to her
parents and partly because she thought Petersham's population would grow. But
the church was never consecrated let alone used. Redundant, it became a recording studio
Separate church
hall and institute.
All Saints' Church. This former church is now a private house. It
was designed by John Kelly in 1899 for
Rachel Laetitia Warde as a memorial to her parents. She died before it
was finished and her son Lionel finished the project. It is in red brick with a
bell tower of 118 ft and a nave taken from a Torunai Cathedral. It was never consecrated but was used by the
parish and the Greek Orthodox Church. In the Second World War it was used as a
radar and anti aircraft command post. It was later used as a recording studio
and as a film location. It went out of
use as a church in 1986 it was sold in 1996. It is now called All Saints House,
Petersham Village Hall. This is the hall to what was All
Saints Church. The frieze above the
hall's front entrance has the inscription "AD 1900. Ellen Walker Thy
Kingdom Come. Memorial Church Room’. It is used by Sudbrook Nursery School.
Dickens Close
Commemorates the writer's stay in the village
Ham Gate Avenue
Ormeley Lodge, 1714-16. Site of small cottage. Mrs Fitzherbert and Prinny. Sometimes garden open to the public. Early Georgian to its fingertips - epitome of
Chesterfieldian virtues, natural virtue all done by a mason contractor. Exquisite. early c18 house of five bays and
two and a half storeys, the five-bay width composed in a nice rhythm with a narrow
central bay in red rubbed brick. Slender segment- headed windows. At the angles
giant pilasters. Beautiful doorway with Corinthian pilasters and a frieze
carved with cherubs' heads and palm leaves. The windows above the door- way
singled out by brick ears and an apron. Lower wings. Outstandingly fine
wrought-iron gate piers, gates, and railings. Through the doorway one enters at
once the staircase hall, which cuts through the house to the garden entrance.
The staircase has delicate balusters, for each step two twisted and one
ornamentally turned, and carved tread-ends.
Sudbrook Park. Early Georgian house with a classical entrance. 1718 Gibbs.
For second Duke of Argyll. Reform
Bill drafted there under Lord Durham.
Now the golf club house. Designed by James Gibbs and completed in 1728
was built for John Campbell. 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich. Being the grandson of the Countess
of Dysart who married the Duke of Lauderdale and having been born in Ham House
himself Argyll had natural connections with Petersham.. They had given it up,
by 1842. Subsequently it was used as hydropathic treatment centre and hotel
before coming into the possession of the seven-year-old golf club in 1898.
Sudbrook Lodge, late c 17, of five bay sand two and a half
storeys with hipped roof,
Richmond Golf Club
Gort Lodge
Sudbrook Cottage
Hazel Lane
The Old House Whornes Place
1925, taken from seven houses of 1487 in Cuxton, Kent.
Lord Mayor of London
Whornes. . A nostalgic creation by Blunden Shadbolt, 1925, with materials brought
from Sir William Whorne's timber-framed house of 1487 at Cuxton, Kent.e
Petersham Rpad
Douglas House.
Picturesque gateway, garden. This one takes its name from the eccentric Kitty
Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry in the 18th century. She was a great patron of
artists and writers, particularly of John Gay. She looked after his money,
built him a summerhouse down by the river so that he could write in peace and allowed
him to have his Beggars Opera rehearsed in her house. The house was bought by
the German government in the 1960s and incorporated into a German school. Built
c. 1700, big stable block with projecting wings, Additional school buildings by
the German firm Kersten Mertinoff & Struhk, designed 1972, completed 1981.
Executive architects W. H. Marmorek and Clifford Culpin & Partners. The
landscaping is by R. Hermes
Elm Lodge,
Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby there
Entrance to Ham Polo Club
Gatehouse to the drive to
Ham House is in a spectacular Jacobean of c. 1900, outdoing the house to which
it was intended to be an introduction
Gort House. Was originally one house with Gort
Lodge in Sudbrook Lane? Early 18th with a two-storey front to the main road,
seven bays wide, and a doorway to Sudbrook Lane with a charming frieze curving
up in the middle.
Government House,
1674, rebuilt
Ham House Lodge built in 1900
Harrington Lodge.
1700. Better if less spectacular house. c. 1700 with a segmental
pediment
Old lodges to Ham House. The original lodge houses
constructed about the same time as the mansion itself. In those days the road
from Richmond to Kingston passed behind Montrose House, rather than in front of
it as now, and then joined up with the existing road about where the Fox and
Duck is.
Tudor Close
Tudor House,
porch from Kent
Richmond Park
Café is
Pembroke Lodge. Was
Molecatcher's Lodge and 1788 enlarged by
Soane and re-named for the Countess of Pembroke who
lived here from 1780 to 1830.. Given to Lord John Russell, Queen Victoria's Prime
Minister and Foreign Secretary. He lived
here for 30 years, disliking society in London.
he did much of his government work here including cabinet meetings here. His
grandson, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, spent his
childhood here. It wasbyuilt I tbge Mid c18 with later additions. Marked thus on
the Ordnance Survey map of 1876,
buttress of ancient mound In the Garden
Sudbrooke Lane
Sudbrook (i.e. Southbrook) being an old hamlet to the
south of Petersham.
Elm Lodge, can’t be
identified, where, in the summer of 1839, the 27 year old Charles Dickens wrote
the greater part of Nicholas Nicklelby.
Sudbrooke Park. The enviable club- house
of the golf course Club. Reform Bill was drafted here. One person lived here with five daughters,
1842 became a spa, and person died, manslaughter 'assault by water'. 1891 hospital. W.C.Holmes gas works 1873. The house by James
Gibbs built in 1726 for the Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, the grandson of the Duchess of Lauderdale
of Ham House. Nine bays; brick and stone dressings. The
main accent on the garden as well as the entrance side a giant portico of
Corinthian columns On the garden side a open stair towards the entrance,
starting in two flights parallel with the facade and then joining up into one.
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