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Colworth Road
Leytonstone High
School for Girls. 1911.
Swimming pool etc in 30s. Formerly the Leyton High School
for Girls. The school stands on the site of Forest Farm and was opened in 1911. The red brick
building by
W. Jacques Begun as a private school in 1884. 1911 by V
K Jacques fl extensions of 1932 and 1957.
Copeland Road.
St Stephen, 1994
by APEC, a small church and housing for young people. There was a church on the
site from 1877
Forest Glade
Victorian Houses
Hindu Temple the
First Church of Christ Scientist originated in 1906 in a house on the corner of Whipps Cross Road
and Forest Glade. In 1937 a permanent brick building was erected
Forest Place
Wallwood Estate.
Home of William Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England and philanthropist who donated
the site for St. John's Church Leytonstone. The character of the area began to change in the mid 19th Century
as the fields and commons gave way to buildings, and by the 1860's the wealthier classes
were moving out. The
Wallwood Estate was sold for development in 1874 and plans were laid before the local
Board in 1883. Building was delayed until the 1890's due to a boundary dispute
with the adjoining Fillebrook
Estate along what is now
Colworth Road, but by the turn of the century much of the current housing and street layout
was complete
Wallwood House, bought in 1817 by William Cotton
1786-1866, cordage manufacturer and later governor of the Bank of England. He
was a founder of the National Society, treasurer of the Metropolis Churches
Fund and paid for three East' End
churches, as well as contributing to the new St John Leytonstone. Demolished.
Forest Road
St.Andrew’s Church. In
1882 the Church of St.
Andrew was established in an iron building in Colworth Road/Forest
Glade on a site donated
by Sir Henry Cotton, son
of William Cotton. The
permanent stone and flint Church was completed in 1893 and served the city workers now
living in the original
Wallwood Estate. By 1903 it was the best attended Church in the
area with total Sunday
congregations of over 1500 people. 1887-92 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.
'The site was given by the Cotton family in memory of the energetic
philanthropist and church builder William Cotton 1866 of Wallwood House, whose
estate was developed as a superior suburb from 1875. stained glass windows in the aisles by Margaret
Chilian, a pupil of Christopher Whall, her most important commission in
England. Several were designed as First World War memorials.
Church Room, 1904 by H.C. Smart. A nice
Arts doorway, the rest burnt out
Hollow pond Deepened by the
unemployed 1905 used for sailing etc.
St.Andrew’s
Church hall Erected
in 1904 and enlarged
in 1912 designed in a similar 'Arts and Crafts' style to the nearby Leytonstone
School and replaced
an earlier Sunday
School building.
Hainault Road
Elim
Pentecostal Church from
1997, Built as St Catherine C.E., 1893
Baptist Church, 1926. Built for Baptists. Very
modest. Red brick gable with round-arch
Hollybush Hill
High Stone is why it is called Leytonstone. Probably a
milestone
Snaresbrook Crown Court. This has been used as law courts from the 1974s, but it was built as
the Infant Orphan Asylum of 1827 and
later known as the Royal Wanstead School for 500 children. It was
designed by Gilbert Scott, then of Scon
& Moffat, 1843. It has been very much altered after the school closed in 1971.
There are more courts in a steel-framed building behind added by Mayell, Hart
& Partners in 1972-4, with an underground link to the old buildings and
more built in 1988 to total twenty
courtrooms.
Chapel , including a window by William
Morris of London c. 1920.
Lea Bridge Road
Chestnut Walk
St.Andrew’s Road
Gospel hall from 1897,
enlarged, from 1970 Church of God
The Drive.
Late Victorian and
Edwardian houses around a green
Wallwood Road
International
Pentecostal City Mission,
1901-2 by Clark Hallam, Mission of Stepney Green Tabernacle, for Primitive
Methodists the church raised over a ground floor.
Whipps Cross Road
'Phip's wayside
cross', set up by a member of the family of John Phyppe, named in local records
of the late fourteenth
century. ‘Phyppys Crosse’ 1517, ‘Fypps Chrosse’ 1537, ‘Phippes Cross’
1572, ‘Whipps Cross’ 1636. The name has
nothing to do with a whipping post.
133-5, 143
153-7 Assembly
Row, after Assembly
House. the
18th Century, the scenic attractions of the Forest led to new building
in this part of Leyton parish which at that time was essentially rural
in character. A row of about 12 'middle class' dwellings was built
in 1767 along the south side of Whipps Cross Road, which was
known as Assembly Row after the Assembly House which stood at one end of it. This
building acted as a venue for social gatherings and public meetings, and was reputedly the venue
for a
gathering of London Merchants at the time of the Great Fire in 1666.
Later called Forest Place. Twelve two- and three-storey houses built 1767
Alfred Hitchcock
Hotel, Originally
two pairs of elegant late Victorian villas overlooking the forest, these properties
have now been
combined to form the Hotel
and public house. Examples of original cast-iron work survives on entrance porches but internally
very little survived the
alterations.
Assembly Rooms site is now
occupied by
an imposing 5 storey Victorian terrace overlooking the Forest.
Whipps Cross Hospital, 1900-3 by Francis J. Sturdy, built as an infirmary for the West
Ham Board of Guardians for the Leytonstone Workhouse, on 44 acres of grounds of the Forest House estate acquired in 1889. Now a confusing
warren, but the original plan is still evident, a vast group of buildings
designed for 762 patients laid out on a pavilion plan, with striking roofline grounds. It was completed in
1903 and when it opened the provided 672 beds in 24 wards in four symmetrical
blocks with tiered covered walkways and
two massive towers. The buildings cost £186,000 to construct. By the end of the
Great War in 1918 it had started to become a general hospital and the name was
changed to Whipps Cross Hospital. There is a central
administrative block with a board room and chapel on the first floor with a
fireplace from the demolished Forest House on the ground floor. Additions
1936-7 by W Lionel Jenkins, Borough Engineer, to house a further 500 patients.
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