St. Johns Church was built in 1845 in the early English gothic style by John Hargrave Stevens and George Alexander. This site on the summit of Notting Hill had formerly been a view-point for spectators at the centre of the Hippodrome race course.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
W11, Lansdowne Crescent
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St John's Church - Notting Hill
A Grade II listed building, which forms the centrepiece of the Ladbroke estat...
Architectural sculptor, wood carver, modeller, metalwork designer, medallist....
Architect. Seems to have specialised in churches and often worked in partners...
A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success pa...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St John's Church - Notting Hill
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St John's Church - Notting Hill
The Ladbroke Conservation Area Appraisal says: "Outside St John’s church is a...
The top of the plaque can just be seen in our photo, to the right of the left-most yellow cone. From Earsathome: Dockwra and his partner...
The Great Synagogue stood near this site until 1272. Corporation of London
March 2016: Google Street View has this whole house fogged out. Someone ever so important must live there.
The carving on the plinth is attractive with a snake knotted into a figure of eight above the lettering, art nouveau capitals at each cor...
