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Chelsea Manor Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from Britten Street, crossing King's Road to St Loo Avenue. The southern continuation, Cheyne Gardens ends at Cheyne Walk. It was originally called Manor Street. [1] In 1931, the Peabody Trust built the Chelsea Manor Street estate of eight blocks totalling 111 ...
The old Chelsea Manor House Swan Court on Chelsea Manor Street, site of Chelsea Manor. Chelsea Manor House was once the demesne of the main manor of the medieval parish now roughly commensurate with the district of Chelsea, London. It was a residence acquired by Henry VIII of England in 1536, and was the site of two subsequent houses. Today ...
King Henry VIII acquired the manor of Chelsea from Lord Sandys in 1536; Chelsea Manor Street is still extant. Two of King Henry's wives, Catherine Parr and Anne of Cleves, lived in the Manor House; Princess Elizabeth – the future Queen Elizabeth I – resided there; and Thomas More lived more or less next door at Beaufort House.
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Chelsea Old Church dates from 1157 and Crosby Hall is a reconstructed medieval merchant's house relocated from the City of London in 1910. Back of old houses Cheyne Walk 1907 by Philip Norman In 1951, the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea planned to construct a new river wall straightening the river bank west of Battersea Bridge.
Brydon's vestry hall in Chelsea Manor Gardens. The building was commissioned to replace a mid-19th-century vestry hall on King's Road, which had been designed by William Willmer Pocock in the Italianate style for the Parish of St Luke's and which had been found to be structurally unsound.
The winged bull is the symbol of St Luke, patron saint of Chelsea (St Luke's parish church is just off the King's Road). The other emblems referred to various holders of the manor over the centuries: the crozier for Westminster Abbey , the lion for Earl Cadogan (first mayor of the borough), the boars' heads and sword for the Sloane family and ...
91–104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road Chelsea SW1W 8RQ 1989 () 7617 : Jinnah (a.k.a. Quaid i Azam) (1876–1948) "founder of Pakistan stayed here in 1895" 35 Russell Road Holland Park W14 8HU 1955 () 1289 : Augustus John (1878–1861) "This house was built for AUGUSTUS JOHN 1878–1961 Painter" 28 Mallord Street Chelsea SW3 6DU 1981 () 9887