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ST PETER'S CHURCH, EATON SQUARE St Peter’s offers a warm welcome to a mixed community in Victoria, was built between 1824 and 1827 during the first development of Belgravia and Pimlico, and have a diverse congregation who come Eaton Square. The interior was, as was common at the time, a from other areas of London too. Each Sunday they offer a lively "preaching box ", with galleries in three sides and the organ and Family Eucharist attended by lots of families and children, and a choir at the west end. James Elmes called the effect "chaste and Sung Eucharist with an outstanding professional choir and beautiful simple ". liturgy. As an inclusive church all are warmly welcomed. We seek to worship God together, to serve others and to proclaim the gospel of This building burnt down, and in 1837 was rebuilt from Hakewill's God’s love made known in Jesus Christ. We have a pre-school drawings by one of his sons. The original building was a group called the Poppets, who meet twice each week, a Youth Commissioners' church, receiving a grant from the Church Building Group, Pilgrim and Faith Groups and regular quiet days and retreats. Commission towards its cost. The full cost of the building was We are delighted to be involved in the exciting community around £22,427 (equivalent to £1,960,000 in 2019) towards which the the church, in outreach work to the homeless, refugees and with our Commission paid £5,556. neighbours in other lands, and we host daily AA meetings. St Peter's is a popular venue for concerts and events, we have our own excel- In 1875, the church was enlarged and reordered to designs by Sir lent concert series, the Eaton Square Concerts, and many charities Arthur Blomfield, who hold functions and added a chancel at meetings here. We are the east end and home to the north and south Knightsbridge transepts and "fiercely Kindergarten and the normanized " the Body Doctor, who are interior. Internally based in the crypts of Blomfield's chancel the church. We have a and transepts are very special relation- Romanesque Revival, ship with St Peter's but externally they Church of England conform with Primary School, and Hakewill's their pupils regularly neoclassical style. come to use the church for assemblies and From its founding St worship. Peter's, Eaton Square, Pimlico and until at The Vicar of St Peter’s, least 1878 was usual- Revd Ralph ly recorded as St Williamson, was Peter's, Pimlico. In ‘Collated ’ to the parish 1953 the crypt con- in April 2015. taining some 400 buri- Previously Ralph was als was cleared and College Chaplain at the remains reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. Christ Church, Oxford, a Team Vicar in Herefordshire and Curate at St Andrew’s Southgate, and was ordained in the London Diocese. On 20th October 1987 an anti-Catholic arsonist set fire to the east He is a qualified Psychodynamic Counsellor and is married with two end, in the mistaken belief that the building was a Roman Catholic children. Revd Julie Khovacs joined the parish as Assistant Priest in chapel. Within hours the church was engulfed. By the next day the September 2015 and moved from a curacy at Ashford Parish fire was out but only the Georgian shell of the building remained. It Church. Originally from the USA, Julie studied Theology in Canada was roofless, with most of its furnishings destroyed. and Scotland, and trained at Wescott House in Cambridge. Her husband is also ordained and serving a curacy in London. Revd Ros The church needed total rebuilding. The Braithwaite Partnership of Trafford-Roberts is the Honorary Assistant Priest and two other architects was appointed to completely redesign the building with a clergy, Revd Ron Swan and Revd Tony Kyriakides also sometimes new and simpler interior, and to incorporate within the site a vicarage, preach and celebrate at St Peter’s. offices, flats for a curate, verger and music director, a meeting hall, nursery school rooms and a large playroom for the church's youth club.
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The notice has prompted MP for Cities of London and Westminster, Nickie Aiken, to contact the deputy mayor of London and the Transport Commissioner with her concerns. She said: “I’m greatly concerned to learn that TfL has received an enforcement notice by the London Fire Service for Victoria Coach Station. Passenger and employee safety should be the top priority. I hope and expect that TfL will take this issue very seriously and comply.”
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Pimlico & Belgravia Eye April 2020 9 WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL A new Nurse's Home was built in Vincent Square in 1960, and a was established in 1719 as a charitable society "for relieving the new wing for the hospital building. sick and needy at the Public Infirmary in Westminster ", and promoted by Mr Henry Hoare, otherwise "Good Henry ", son of Sir Richard In 1992, the Westminster Hospital closed, and in 1993 re-opened, Hoare and a Partner in the bank C. Hoare & Co, and his associates as the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, in Fulham Road. The the writer William Wogan, a vintner called Robert Witham, and the old buildings were converted into luxury flats called Westminster Reverend Patrick Cockburn. Green, which preserve the façade of the original hospital building. The previous buildings in Broad Sanctuary survived until destroyed The hospital grew to 31 beds by 1724, necessitating a move to by a fire in 1950; the Queen Queen Elizabeth II Conference Chappell Street (later renamed Broadway). In 1733, a disagreement Centre, now stands on the site. between the Governors and the medical staff led to a mass exodus of medical staff, who went on to set up what became St George's The hospital has had a number of distinguished medical students Hospital. Meanwhile, the Infirmary continued with its existing Governors and moved to Buckingham Gate in 1735, where it was known as the Westminster Infirmary for the Sick and Infirm. By 1757 there were 98 beds and the site was expanded with building work and the acquisition of neighbouring property. By 1760, it was known simply as the Westminster Hospital.
In 1831, a new site at the Broad Sanctuary opposite Westminster Abbey was acquired, and a new and spacious hospital building was completed and opened in 1834, at a cost of £40,000. The hospital was situated by the Broad Sanctuary and the northern side of the and staff including Hale Thompson who performed the first operation nave of under general anaesthetic at the hospital. The physician John Snow Westminster studied and worked at the hospital and is best known for his Abbey, discovery in the 1854 cholera epidemic that the disease was water between the borne. Lord Lister was the surgeon responsible for developing the Sessions antiseptic technique. Sir Clement Price-Thomas was one of the House and pioneers of thoracic surgery and famously operated on King Victoria Street, George VI within Buckingham Palace in 1951. In 1981, Professor and accommodated Brian Gazzard diagnosed one of Europe’s first cases of AIDS at about 200 in-patients, Westminster Hospital. and the total number of patients relieved annually, in an 1878 account, was about 20,000. The hospital has also installed a heritage timeline and permanent It was the first subscription hospital erected in London, and was public exhibition at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, to celebrate incorporated in 1836. its fascinating history and installed an online heritage page. Thanks to support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this In 1924, the Westminster Hospital was substantially refurbished. exhibition includes artefacts from the hospital archives, oral In 1938, the Westminster Hospital moved to St John's Gardens, accounts and memories from past staff and a variety of film Westminster, and included The Queen Mary Nurses' Home and a footage and photographs. Training School, both opened in 1938, followed in 1939 by the opening of the new Westminster Hospital building opposite, in Charitable support continues to be as integral today as it has been Horseferry Road. The new building was hit by bombs in 1940 and throughout the hospital’s 300 years. The most recent example is suffered from a nearby landmine explosion in 194. the £12.5 million they have raised to redevelop and expand the hospital’s adult and neonatal intensive care units. Upon the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948, the Westminster Hospital was placed in a new "Westminster Group of Hospitals ", which included, also, the Gordon Hospital, the Westminster Children's Hospital and the All Saints' Hospital.
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WHEN CHINA SNEEZES A HISTORY OF ARTILLERY MANSIONS The remorseless spread of the Coronavirus pandemic has illustrated Victoria Street saw some of the finest Victorian mansions blocks to the perils of the interconnected world, and given encouragement be built in London around the mid – late 1800’s. Victoria Street to those who have been warning of the dangers of globalisation. itself was formed circa 1847-1851 and St James Underground Station was opened in 1868 which explains the rise of residential It has also starkly highlighted the dangers presented by China, mansions blocks. where the virus originated. Whereas Great Britain was the ‘work- shop of the world’ in the 19th century, that title has now passed Built around open-courtyards which served as carriage ways and to China. The colossal growth of China’s economy over the last residents gardens, the mansions blocks were typically red brick in two decades has propelled it to the point the fashionable Queen Anne style. Originally the apartments would where it is the world’s second have appealed to bachelors as many apartments would not have largest economy, and it was on had kitchens and instead there would have been a communal dining the point of challenging the area and a host of servants to maintain the flats, and the needs of
United States for the top spot.
But do we really want to rely .on an undemocratic country to .drive the global economy and
.keep its supply chains flowing? China’s record on human rights
is appalling. It persecutes
.Tibetans and Uyghurs,
.Muslims and Christians. It
.is turning atolls in the
.South China Sea into
military bases, and wants to turn it in to a Chinese lake. Its navy
and air force are intent on excluding or controlling the passage the residents. As the need for domestic help begin to decline, the
of other nation’s fleets, even in international waters. communal setup of mansions blocks lent themselves well to being
turned into hotels and Artillery mansions was one such building. Apart from its lack of democracy and persecution of minorities Comedian, Norman Wisdom describes having been an errand boy China is also a massive polluter. Whilst the UK and other western in a hotel on Victoria Street in the 1920’s. countries agonise over building new runways and rush to close coal fired power stations, China is building a dozen new airports Artillery Mansions was commandeered in the Second World War a year, and opening more new coal-fired power stations than the as a Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters and is believed that rest of the world combined. We may smugly tell ourselves that the bar of St Ermin’s Hotel was a playground for double agents we will be carbon neutral by 2050 (or even 2040), but in reality and less than honourable spooks. all we have done is sub-contract our pollution to China.
Finally, China does not play fair on trade. Whilst granted almost After the war the building was again used as a private residence,
unfettered access to western markets since the unwise decision in particular to house ex-servicemen. The Army & Navy Company,
to allow her to join the World Trade Organisation in 2001, she which owned The Army and Navy Store on Victoria Street,
severely restricts inward investment and inward trade, and registered ‘Army and Navy Ltd ’ at Artillery Mansions as a lettings
routinely steals intellectual property on an industrial scale. management company. President Trump has many critics in America and around the By the 1980’s a deserted Artillery Mansions was taken over by world, but in his attempt to stop China cheating, and in his squatters in an attempt to provoke action from the New Scotland efforts to prevent it becoming the world’s number one economy, Yard opposite and Artillery Mansions earned the moniker ‘New he is doing us all a favour. The world is a better and safer place Squatland Yard ’. Infighting and misaligned ideologies meant that the for having the US as the top economic and military superpower. squatters moved on of their own accord. In the 1990’s developers If it were to be replaced by China in either role, it would be a bought the site and redeveloped the building into apartments. catastrophe for us all.
Lionel Zetter is a writer and commentator James Roche, the 3rd Baron Fermoy resided there in the early [email protected] 1900’s. Baron Roche was the great grandfather of Diana, The View my vlog at: https://youtu.be/P3s9k3PBkhc Princess of Wales.
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LONDON'S DOLPHIN SQUARE - A HISTORICAL GUIDE The Dolphin Square Preservation Society branded the plans ‘excessive’ During World War Two, Oswald Mosley who led a fascist movement and insisted they would ‘destroy the ethos, character and fabric’ of in Britain, was arrested in his Dolphin Square flat and driven to the neo-Georgian estate. The buildings, which has been home to prison. MI5's Maxwell Knight supposedly recruited future James princesses, MPs and spies and actors over the last 80 years, has Bond writer Ian Fleming to the Secret Service from a flat a few been the subject of three unsuccessful listing bids. doors down.
Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah was evicted from the square for chucking gin bottles out of her window. Princess Anne spent several highly publicised months living there with her new husband.
Conservative MP Iain Mills died of alcohol poisoning in his flat, with the result that John Major's government lost its parliamentary majority. High profile MPs such as ex-Tory leader William Hague, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Liberal Democrat leaders David Steel and Sir Menzies Campbell also lived there.
Charles de Gaulle based his Free France government in the square during the war. Two decades later the Soviet spy John Vassall was living in the square when he was arrested for treason.
An artist's impression of Dolphin Square, looking south across the proposed new roof of Rodney House (Image: Eric Parry Architects)
Planning officers had, nevertheless, recommended approval, saying the ‘significant’ benefits of new homes – 57 of which would be affordable – outweighed ‘less than substantial’ harm to the conservation area from demolition of Rodney House.
‘The increase in height of the proposed replacement building and rooftop extensions will increase the building’s dominance,’ conceded the planning report to committee. ‘However, given the scale of the existing building, and the simplicity of the proposed architecture, it is considered that the architectural character of the conservation area will be preserved.’
Westminster City Council chairman of planning Gotz Mohindra said: Last year, Westminster Council rejected the US company’s proposal ’Dolphin Square clearly needs refurbishment but this scheme to add 230 new homes by adding extra floors to the red-brick provides too much temporary lettable accommodation at the expense blocks, taking the total number of homes to 1,455. Proposed works of permanent housing, especially for families, or wider public benefit included demolishing and rebuilding Rodney House, adding a to justify the harm that the extensive works would do to the rooftop extension to the rest of the estate, reconfiguring existing conservation area.’ units and adding 16 townhouses. Westbrook has appealed the case. ‘The increase in short-term let properties, which the council and When the council rejected the plans last July, members of its residents fiercely oppose, left us with little choice but to refuse the Planning Committee took issue with a lack of affordable housing. application.’ They also complained about the proposed increase in the number of serviced apartments, which would have risen from 143 to 160.
Developer Westbrook Partners will take a controversial planning application to revamp the Square to a public inquiry on May 12th.
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