A4204 | |
Former name(s) | Church Lane, Silver Street |
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Location | Kensington, London |
Postal code | W8 |
Nearest Tube station | Notting Hill Gate |
Coordinates | 51°30′21.03″N 0°11′39.53″W / 51.5058417°N 0.1943139°W |
North end | Notting Hill Gate |
South end | Kensington High Street |
Other | |
Known for | Shopping, fine art and antique sellers. |
Kensington Church Street is a shopping street in Kensington, London, England, designated the A4204, and traditionally known for its art and antiques shops.
Buildings at the southern end date back to the early 1700s. [1] It is named after Kensington's original church of St Mary Abbots. The south part was formerly called Church Lane, and the north part, Silver Street. Until 1864 there was a toll gate at Campden Street. [2]
The street runs north to south from Notting Hill Gate to Kensington High Street. There are several Grade II listed Georgian and Victorian buildings. [3]
Time Out calls it "eccentrically posh". [4]
On the night of the 29 August 1975, Joseph O'Connell and Eddie Butler, members of the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang placed a bomb in the doorway of a shoe shop. A warning was phoned to the Daily Mail at 9:35pm. The bomb exploded at 10:12pm, killing Roger Goad, a Metropolitan Police explosives officer who was attempting to defuse it. [5] [6] [7]
Until it moved in 1973, Barbara Hulanicki's influential fashion shop Biba was located in Kensington Church Street. [8]
The composer Muzio Clementi lived at Number 128 from 1820 to 1823, and is commemorated with a blue plaque. [9] [10] [11]
The street is mentioned several times in The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton.
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