Earl's Court House, Old Brompton, near London

Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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on Railway, and this we fixupon as the limits of our perambulations in the far west. Addison Road, of course, is so named l62 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Holland House. after another and a distinguished occupant ofHolland House, of which we shall presently speak;and it forms a communication between the Ken-sington and Uxbridge Roads, skirting the westside of Holland Park. St. Barnabas Church, whichstands in this road, and dates from about the year1827, is built in the late Perpendicular style ofGothic architecture. Having been built only in the early part ot the Cope, it was built, in the year 1607, from thedesigns of John Thorpe, the famous architect ofseveral of the baronial mansions of England whichwere erected about that time. Although scarcelytwo miles distant from London, with its smoke, itsdin, and its crowded thoroughfares, Holland Housestill has its green meadows, its sloping lawns, andits refreshing trees; and the view of the quaintold pile which meets the wayfarer in passing along
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Earl's Court House (formerly JOHN HUNTERS HOUSE). seventeenth century, shortly after the death ofQueen Elizabeth, Holland House has no historythat carries us back beyond the first of the Stuarts;nor, indeed, did the mansion become really cele-brated till the reign of George I., when the widowof its owner. Rich, Earl of Holland and Warwick,married Addison, who died here. It afterwardscame into the possession of the family of Fox,Lord Holland, firstly as tenants, and subsequentlyas owners of the freehold. The first Lord Hollandand his lady were both persons of ability; andbefore the end of the reign of George H., HollandHouse had risen into a celebrity which it has neversince lost. The mansion takes its name from Henry Rich,Earl of Holland, by whose father-in-law, Sir Walter the Kensington Road, on his road towards orfrom Hammersmith, is highly suggestive of ruralsolitude, and the effect is enhanced by the noteof the nightingale, which is frequently heard in thegrounds which surroun

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