Brompton Square, 2008
Brompton Square is a garden square in London's
Brompton district, in the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .
History
Brompton Square (centre) on an 1860s Ordnance Survey map
The initial development of the square was undertaken by
James Bonnin in 1821.
Listed buildings
Houses in Brompton Square, 2007
Many of the houses that surround Brompton Square are
Grade II listed on the
National Heritage List for England . The individual listed houses on the square are 27,
[1] 31a,
[2] 56,
[3] 57
[4] and 58.
[5] The houses listed in groups and pairs are 3–9,
[6] 10–12,
[7] 13–16,
[8] 17–19,
[9] 20–25,
[10] 28–31,
[11] 32–36,
[12] 37–53,
[13] 54–55
[14] and 59–60.
[15] A stuccoed
doric
portico forms part of 31 Brompton Square and is listed as 36 Ennismore Gardens.
[16]
Notable residents
Brompton Square Gardens, 2007, private gardens in the centre of the square for the use of residents
Notable residents have included:
No. 6 was home to the poet
Stéphane Mallarmé in 1863, and a
blue plaque commemorates this.
No. 13 was home to the writer and lawyer
Sir John Stoddart , who died there in 1856.
[17]
No. 14 was home to the musical theatre composer
Edward Fitzwilliam .
[18]
No. 21 was home to the political reformer
Francis Place and his wife, the actress
Louisa Chatterley , from 1833 to 1851, and a
blue plaque commemorates Place's residency. It had previously been the home of the Italian conductor Ernesto Spagnoletti between 1829 and 1833.
[18]
No. 22 was home to the playwright
George Colman , who died there in 1836; it was later the home of the actor James Vining and
Shirley Brooks , the editor of
Punch .
[18]
No. 23 was home to the actor
William Farren , who died there in 1861.
[19]
No. 25 was home to the novelist
E. F. Benson , and a
blue plaque commemorates this. It is the setting for his 1927 book
Lucia in London .
No. 27 was used from 1861 (along with No. 48) as a convent and convalescent home by the
Nursing Sisters of the Church of England , who later moved to St Peter's Convent, Kilburn, then to Woking;
[20] in the early 20th century it was a nursing home owned by a Mrs Lucy Catherine Jervis. Lucile Agnes Dickson, the wife of the early film director
William Kennedy Dickson , died at the house in 1908 under the care of Mrs Jervis, and Dickson would later rent rooms at the house for several years.
[21]
No. 28 was purchased by
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon , in 1953 and is now home to the Faringdon Collection of art.
[22]
No. 31 was bought in the mid-2000s by
Achilleas Kallakis , "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster",
[23] for £28 million; he had the entire garden dug out to a depth of 30 feet to build a three-storey basement. The project was abandoned in 2008. As of 2017, it is for sale at £25 million.[
citation needed ]
No. 35 was home to
William Hook Morley ,
barrister and
orientalist , who died there in 1860.[
citation needed ]
No. 39 is the London home of
Roland Emmerich , German film director, screenwriter, and producer.
[24]
No. 43 was home to
Richard Burchett , artist and educator.[
citation needed ]
Mary Melissa Hoadley Dodge , the American heiress, lived there. The writer on natural history
Mary Roberts lived and died there. The engineer
Charles Anthony Corbett Wilson was born there in 1827.[
citation needed ]
William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse , the
Royal Air Force fighter pilot and
flying ace killed in action during the
Battle of Britain , was born there in 1914.
Robin Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire , was born there in 1929.[
citation needed ]
In the late 19th century the Brompton district was very popular with actors, and Brompton Square was at some point home to the performers
John Liston (No. 40),
Mary and
Robert Keeley (No. 19),
J. B. Buckstone (No. 6) and
Horace and
Alfred Wigan .
[18]
[25]
References
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Historic England ,
"27, Brompton Square SW3 (1080766)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"31A, Brompton Square SW3 (1293686)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"56, Brompton Square SW3 (1358106)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"57, Brompton Square SW3 (1080726)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"58, Brompton Square SW3 (1358107)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"3-9, Brompton Square SW3 (1080764)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"10-12, Brompton Square SW3 (1294314)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"13-16, Brompton Square SW3 (1080765)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"17-19, Brompton Square SW3 (1358085)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"20-25, Brompton Square SW3 (1189316)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"28-31, Brompton Square SW3 (1080723)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"32-36, Brompton Square SW3 (1358105)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"37-53, Brompton Square SW3 (1080724)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"54-55, Brompton Square SW3 (1080725)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"59-60, Brompton Square SW3 (1080727)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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Historic England ,
"36 Ennismore Gardens, SW7 (1080652)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 October 2017
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"Stoddart, Sir John (1773–1856), writer and lawyer" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/26551 . Retrieved 30 August 2022 .
^
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b
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d edward ledger (1874).
The Era Almanack 1874 . p. 28.
^ Henry Benjamin Wheatley; Peter Cunningham (24 February 2011).
London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions . Cambridge University Press. p. 281.
ISBN
978-1-108-02806-6 .
^
"St Peter's Convent and Chapel" . The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking. Retrieved 3 April 2021 .
^ Paul Spehr (17 November 2008).
The Man Who Made Movies: W.K.L. Dickson . Indiana University Press. p. 620.
ISBN
978-0-86196-936-4 .
^
"The Chelsea Society - Visit to the Faringdon Collection" . chelseasociety.org.uk . 11 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2017 .
^ Bowers, Simon; Hickey, Shane (16 January 2013).
"Confidence trickster who defrauded banks out of £750m faces jail" . Retrieved 27 September 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
^ Salmon, Natasha (12 September 2017).
"Film director's London home decorated with murals of dictators up for rent at £35,000 per month" . The Independent . Retrieved 14 August 2020 .
^ Michael Baker (24 July 2015).
The Rise of the Victorian Actor . Routledge. p. 69.
ISBN
978-1-317-39910-0 .
External links
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Brompton Square, London at Wikimedia Commons
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