Kennington - Newington Butts
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Post to the north Thames Tributary Neckinger Waterloo & St Georges
Post to the west Lambeth Riverside
Aulton Place
Austral Street
27
Two Eagles.
pub
Bird Street
Gone. End is
Gilbert Road
Bishop’s Terrace
The
Ship
Bowden
Street.
Braganza Street
Walworth City Farm. 1987 derelict rubbish dump. Grows Asian and Afro
Caribbean vegetables
Brandon Estate.
A
cluster of white towers built in the late 1950s. The scheme was drawn up in
1955 for the L.C.C. Architect's Department by Edward Hollamby and six 18 storey
towers were built. the estate was extended
in the 1960s, with five 26 storey towers..
Branch Library with clubroom above, and a mural and other
decoration by Anthony Holloway.
Forsyth Gardens
Brook Drive.
Lambeth Hospital. Infirmary Building and Lambeth
Workhouse, 1873. Lambeth Hospital. Developed from the infirmary buildings 1877 by Fowler & Hilt
added to Lambeth Workhouse. Operating theatres by Yorke Rosenberg &
Mardall, 1967
Neckinger down it
Burrup Place (not on az)
Cable hauled trams from junction to Streatham Library
in Brixton Road 1895‑1904.
Cardigan Street
Terraces of cottages by Adshead &
Ramsay, 1913. They are in a neo-Regency style, something very progressive at
that time
castlebrook Close
Site of Lambeth Hospital.
Chester Way
For the Duchy of Cornwall. Later neo-Georgian housing by the Louis de Soissons Partnership
1877 St.Mary's Church, 1872 inside grand Historical
Society, Surrey City and Guilds, so Kennington Theatre,
Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens between Kennington and Walworth Roads. 1831. Lake, music hall and
everything else. Sold off in 1878. Three years after
the London Zoo began, a zoo opened in Walworth in 1831. It was called Royal
Surrey Zoological Gardens and the proprietor was Edward Cross who moved a
menagerie from its original home in the Strand. The zoo had lions, tigers,
elephants, llamas, a pair of dromedaries presented by the ruler of Egypt, and a
giant tortoise on which children were able to ride. Five giraffes were brought
from Africa by an Arab boy Fadlallah. A model of them is in the Cuming Museum.
In 1848 Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the royal children paid the zoo a
visit. They were especially interested in a rather strange animal friendship -
a tigress and a dog that lived in the same cage. The zoo closed in 1856 and
nothing of it remains in the Manor Place area, where it was situated.
Kennington Station. 18th December 1890. Terminus of
Northern Line from Waterloo. Between Oval and Elephant and Castle on the
Northern Line. City London and Southwark Railway. Station
tunnel 3ft deep brick lining and 20ft wide l6ft high and 20 ft long. Dome
housed headgear and hydraulic lifts. One of the original stations on the first
tube line. Now a listed building
London
Park Hotel - Third Rowton House,. Setup 1896,architect, H. B. Measures, at the
Elephant & Castle originally asa Rowton House having 805 cubicles for
working men. It was the third in a series of 'Poor Man's Hotels' started by
Montagu William Lowry Corry, Lord Rowton, 1838- 1903. He had been private
secretary to Benjamin Disraeli.He made a survey of London's common lodging
houses for the Guiness Trust and decided to establish working men's hotels. It
opened on 23 December 1897. The best possible lodgings were provided for the
small charge of 6d per night. The reading room contained a large variety of engravings
representing scenes from Shakespeare. The smoking room was also decorated with
engravings and stags' heads. It had its own rooftop gardens, built
over the dining rooms. In 1903
additional land was acquired anda further 211 beds were opened. In 1941 a bomb hit the boiler
room, demolishing part of the reading room above. There was a Second bomb in
1944. There was a laundry, plus a
furniture and an engineering shop for metal equipment, were adjacent.
Pullen Estate
Wilberforce
Mission House
Cleaver Square
Oblong of late c 18 to mid c 19 terraces formerly
Prince's Square after the builder
Sculpture of a recumbent figure, by James Butler, c.
1970.
48
Prince of Wales Cosy one-bar pub in corner of quiet
square. Interesting tapestries and history of pub on
wall.
Cleaver Street
Cottington Street
Combines all the housing (and garaging) within a series of A-frame ziggurats rising to nine storeys. They used a
Wates system to fit the design by Lambeth Architects
Department, and are the most extreme example of attempts to make the tower form visually exciting in a brutalist manner
Cotton Gardens
Housing of the 1960s. One of the most extreme housing contrasts of the 1960s: three of Lambeth's concrete towers,
Courtney Square
Courtney Street
Omnibus
depot.
Dante Road
Denny
Crescent
Cottages by
J. D. Coleridge, 1913
Fairford Grove (not on AZ)
Farmers Road
Farmer vitriol
makers Farmer in 1858 factory founded in 1778
Gabriel
Street (not on AZ)
Gilbert Street
Golden Place.
Gone, north of Kennington Lane and east of Chester Way
Hampton Street
35 Hampton Court Palace. Pub.
Imposing interior with high ceilings
Hart Street
Gone, north of Kennington Lane and east of Chester Way
Hillingdon Street
Holyoak Road
Hotspur Street
Hurle Road
Kempsford Street
Kennington
Probably means ‘farm of a man called Cena’.or
‘place of the king’. ‘Chenintune’ 1086, ‘Kenintone’ 1229,
‘Kenyngton’ 1263. In 1337 given to the Black Prince and it has
belonged to the eldest son of the king ever since. Part of the Duchy of
Cornwall.
Kennington Park Road
Roman Road radiating from London
Bridge opened up for suburban
development by the opening of Blackfriars Bridge. Wide and tree-planted on either side some of the prettiest late
Georgian terraces in South London. Modern flats, houses and shops line this pleasant
thoroughfare but at the southern end, are numerous late Georgian houses with tree-filled front gardens.
Historical Society,
Surrey Zoological Garden site of 15 acres
46 Mansion House pub. Dates to William III with oak beams and
brick noggin. Cocktail lounge with piano bar.
59, the former vicarage of St Mary's, Gothic,
1873,
Denny Crescent,
cottages 1913.
Kennington
Cross
Kennington
Cross gents Underground 'gents',
10 urinal 'stalls.' and one fish-tank cistern - a second was smashed by vandals
in the 1970s
Metropolitan
Cattle & Drinking Trough Association horse trough, disused. Note
low-level trough for shorter creatures.
Built up after Westminster Bridge
opened up this part of Lambeth, still has a remarkably complete collection of
late c 18 to early c19 terraces.
111 Tankard pub.
Spacious two-bar pub close to Imperial War Museum with
comfortable panelled lounge.
Junction of Kennington Road, an
underground gentlemen's Convenience c. 1900, with original fittings (by Finch
& Co. of Lambeth),
114-132 Michael
Searles 1787
171 Ship Lively two-bar pub. The pub has a nautical
theme with nets hanging from the ceiling and other artefacts.
293
Charlie Chaplin’s pub, was previously The Roebuck.
317 with a
pediment inscribed Marlborough House
by
Michael Searles.
340 Cock Tavern Back street local with small Public Bar.
St.Anselm
Vauxhall Manor School
Annexe. Good example of T. J. Bailey's mature
three-decker board schools with jolly Jacobean skyline. 1897, wing 1910
Balls Yard was
1870 London Tramways Depot.
St Philip, 1862-3 by H. E. Coe with chapel by H. S.
Rogers, 1913, ragstone Decorated style. Demolished.
Kennington Park Place.
Kennington Lane
94 King's Arms.
Modern Saloon Bar with pool table and juke box in Public Bar.
23l‑245 1791 offices for the Gin Distillers Co.
247 Pilgrim. Modern
comfortably furnished interior.
355 Royal Oak Comfortable,
friendly one bar local.
349 Duke of Cambridge
372 Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Herbert House c. 1860 is an orphanage to give pupil
teachers of the school vicarage of 18th was a house of manager of Vauxhall
Gardens, opposite
Site of first water works. South London Water Cos. works built in 1807 and burnt down six
weeks later. Built two circular reservoirs on the site. 1854 altered and
opened the space. Water taken from Washay, which came from Brixton into the
Thames at Vauxhall. Built another works in 1827 at the foot of Vauxhall Bridge
Cumberland Gardens. 20 hp engine from
Kennington Lane. 142" tunnel into the middle of the river. Pumping water
from the river to Kennington Lane reservoir. Then water from Vauxhall
Creek was bad so they built big tunnel into the river and took river water
only. Engine put there in 1840. Amalgamated with other companies in 1843.
Closed 1847 and sold to Phoenix Gas Co.
St Anne R.C.
1903-7 by F. A. Walters, large, with side chapels between the buttresses
inside, tall arcades, and an Arts and Crafts stencilled chancel.
St.Anne's House 1824. Soanian neo‑Greek complicated
entrance. Note the pleasant entrance,
St.Peter's Schools boys and girls, and an art school,
which became the school room 1863 231‑245 1791 offices for the Gin Distillers
Co. Soup kitchen became the school
room
St.Peter’s Church edge of area of Vauxhall Gardens, altar on the site of Neptune
Fountain. By J. L. Pearson, the architect of Truro Cathedral, St John Red Lion
Square, and St Augustine Kilburn. This was his first major town church, planned
in 1860, built to a cheaper modified design in 1863- 4, for the Rev. Robert
Gregory, together with schools, orphanage, and vicarage in the slum area that
had developed on the site of Vauxhall Gardens.
Vauxhall Manor School 1897/1901 three decker board school.
Vicarage house of manager of Vauxhall Gardens
Durning Library. Paid for by Miss
Durning Smith. 1889. Lambeth
benefited from the patronage of Sir Henry Tate, who lived at Streatham. Many
South London libraries were designed by his protégé S. R.J. Smith. They are
enjoyable examples of minor late Victorian municipal showmanship.
Imperial Court, the former Licensed Victuallers' School, by
Henry Rose, 1836. Large, with a composite portico and pediment. A school would
never have been so ambitious in its architecture before the c19, when higher education for the
middle class became important enough to call for the monumental. An imposing pile with the swimming pool/drill hall, added in 1890.
For the children of decayed Licenced Victuallers who are fed, clothed &
educated” NAAFI moved in when kids moved to Slough 1921.
Historical collection. Role of canteens in 2WW
Kennington Park
Kennington Park Place.
5 for Bishop of Rochester Day Nursery
2 Simpson Maule and Nicholson manufacturing chemist 1885
Site of Wellington Mills Joshua Oakley & Sons manufacturers of emery, sand etc. three
stores in the adjoining development.
Wellington Mills G.L.C. housing co-op. 1976. High density infill
St.Anselm.
Planned in 1911 but not completed until 1932-3. By Adshead & Ramsay,
architects of the adjacent Duchy of Cornwall housing. Mural below
the clerestory. 1971 by Norman Adams. Abstract design
Vicarage, 1913
Elephant and Castle station. 18th December 1890. Terminus of Bakerloo
Line from Lambeth North. Between Borough and Kennington on the Northern Line. City and South London
Railway between King William Street and Stockwell. The station was similar in design to that at
Kennington. 1920s Northern line station
partly rebuilt. 1960s Northern Line station rebuilt during the construction of
the Elephant & Castle shopping centre and roundabout . 2003 Northern Line
station modernised with a New extension entrance from Skipton Street. 5TH
August 1906 Opening of Baker Street and Waterloo
Railway from Baker Street to here with the terminus and the building of a typical Leslie Green structure.
Lucretia Road
Longville Road
Manor Place
Doctor's surgery, 1992 Penoyre and Prasad
Mansion House Street.
Gone. Was south side of Kennington
Lane
Methley Street,
Milverton Street
Monkton Street
Lambeth Community Care Centre, 1985 Edward Cullinan
Architects This community care facility – accommodating a 20 bed community care
centre, with day care for 35 and its own therapy and nursing staff-provides
local hospital attention and specialist medical services. It is an unusual
commission for the 1980s and has probably attracted more attention from
northern European architects than British ones.
Newington
Newington . ‘Neuton’
c.1200, ‘Niwentone’ 13th century, ‘Newenton’ 1258, ‘Neuwyngton’ 1325, that is
'the new farmstead or estate', from Old English ‘new’ - oblique case ‘niwan’ and ‘tun’. Grew up as a farming area after Lambeth
Palace brought more traffic on the Kent road.
Got a reputation for making clay pipes. Henry Penton was a big landowner
who began to sell for building.
Newington Butts
Newington Butts is
recorded as from 1558 and recalls the site of the old archery butts here either archery or family
name. Main road that soon becomes
Kennington Park Road. It has an historic name for in 1538, when archery became
a compulsory exercise for all citizens, butts were set up here. Somewhere here,
too, Joanna Southcott founded her meeting house with Mr. Carpenter, her main
disciple. Later the two quarreled and Joanna went off to Lambeth to repeat the process
with a Mr. Tozer. Faraday was born in 1791 in Newington Butts. He began his
career as a bookbinder's errand boy in Marylebone but later, when he attended
lectures at the Royal Institution, he came under the patronage of Sir Humphrey
Davy who fostered his scientific inclinations. Faraday's inventions were too
numerous to catalogue but any single one of them could have made him famous. In
later life he moved to a house at Hampton Court and he died there in 1867.
17 Butts Free House. No real ale.
140 Plough and Harrow pub. Lively comfortable
two-bar timber panelled
St.Mary's churchyard. Church
pulled down in 1876 and now in
Kennington Park Road. Medieval church rebuilt in 17th and pulled down for road
widening 19th. Various churches stood here in the past including
Norman, medieval and Georgian buildings. At one of the churches the parents of
Samuel Pepys were married. Clock tower given by R.S.Faulconer.
Managed by Newington Burial Board
Newington Estate
Southwark Borough Council 1971-7; low yellow-brick terraces.
The Drapers livery company
created Walters' Almshouses on a site now at the southern intersection island
in 1640, giving the tower block opposite its name 'Draper House'. The
almshouses were relocated to Brandon Street in the 1960s as part of the major
redevelopments here.
Draper Estate L.C.C 1962.
High-rise flats over shops,
16 Bar South Central was Draper's Tavern
Monkton Street.
Gone,
Line of Gilbert Road
Oakden
Street
Opal Street.
1950 Lambeth
tower blocks. . Densely packed group mixed
heights up to nine storeys,
enlivened only by some Festival-style tiled balconies
and brickwork
Radcot Street
Ravensdon Street,
Regency Place
Gone – part of a maze of streets
south of Kennington Lane and east of Cleaver Square
Renfrew
Road.
42
Court Tavern
Lambeth
Hospital
Magistrates'
Court 1869 by T. C. Sorby, brick and stone, Tudor
Gothic (court room with open timber roof),
Fire
Station, 1868, enlarged 1896 by a tall asymmetrical
building with Jacobean gable. By the L.C.C. Fire Brigade
Department under Robert Pearsall. The earlier part plainer, with slightly Gothic window details.
Orient
Street
Oswin
Street
Was Temple
Street.
Penrose Street
Walworth main
works original L.C.C Tram Depot 1891
Reedworth
Street
Renfrew Road
Former
fire station, c.1910 – note look-out tower above.
St.Anne's Place
Stables Way
Site of
Kennington Palace stables.
Stannary Street
37 Alderman. Pub with haunted cellars
Sullivan
Road
St .Mary's Square
Walcot Square
1837/9.
198 actress
Sarah Poole
Some good late-18th-century houses
Roots and Shoots,
wildlife garden with large summer meadow, beehives, observation beehive, old
roses, echiunis, 2 large ponds. Wildlife displays, nest box cameras, activities
for children and adults. Hot borders, Mediterranean mound. Run by innovative
charity providing training, garden advice and plant sates. Fine walnut tree and
Acacia dealbata.
White Hart Square.
Gone – was south of Kennington Lane
and east of Cleaver Square
White Hart Street.
Gone – was south of Kennington Lane
and east of Cleaver Square
Wincott
Street
Shelley
School, matches mood of Knights Walk
Windmill Row
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