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Chapter 17: Portland Place
Get PDFProviding essential knowledge about the British capital’s built environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from just west of Marylebone High Street to the parish boundary along Cleveland Street near Tottenham Court Road to the east. This area is rich in historic buildings and includes some of London’s most celebrated addresses, including Portland Place, Cavendish Square, and Harley Street. Among the most important buildings covered in this superbly illustrated book are Robert and James Adam’s development of Portland Place, where the Royal Institute of British Architects’ headquarters is a notable 20th-century insertion. Other landmarks include Marylebone Parish Church, All Saints Margaret Street and All Souls Langham Place, and the vast, recently demolished Middlesex Hospital. In addition to new photography, this volume includes meticulous architectural drawings and detailed coverage of the topography
Chapter 8: South of Cavendish Square
Get PDFThe short streets south of Cavendish Square were first built up in the 1720s–
40s as part of the early development of the Cavendish–Harley estate in and
around the square. They have been repeatedly recast since, though a few
original houses, some by James Gibbs, survived into the 1970s. Only Gibbs’s
Oxford Chapel (now St Peter’s, Vere Street) remains from that early period;
today offices and the undistinguished sides and backs of Oxford Street
department stores predominate
Chapter 13: Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place
Get PDFWimpole Street, Upper Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place make up one of the
longest thoroughfares on the Howard de Walden estate, extending more than half a
mile from Henrietta Place to Marylebone Road. The names commemorate Wimpole
near the Cambridgeshire–Hertfordshire border, a seat of the Cavendish and Harley
families until 1740, and the Cavendish dukedom. Development began at the south
end in the 1720s and after a long hiatus progressed northwards block by block,
finally reaching completion in the 1790s. Most of the original houses to survive are in
Upper Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place, where irrespective of later alterations
the grand terraces still convey a strong sense of late-Georgian urbanity. Together
with the more popularly renowned Harley Street, the whole stretch of road now
forms the core of Marylebone’s private medical quarter
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