40-552: Clapham Common Club , usually known by its initials C.C.C. , was a mid-nineteenth century amateur English football club based at Clapham Common . The club was active during the period between 1864 and 1871, playing both association football and codes closer to rugby football . The club was a member of the Football Association from 1864 to 1872, although it did not enter the FA Cup. The club's first recorded match
80-543: A 0–0 draw at home to Sydenham F.C., in which the club was "represented on this occasion by an exceptionally weak team"., although the club was still active within the FA committees at this time, with captain P.V. Turner being on the committee to choose players for the unofficial internationals . The formation of the Clapham Rovers was a factor in the decline of C.C.C.; the club's captain and secretary in 1868, John Tayloe,
120-609: A 5-minute walk from Clapham railway station on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway . Clapham Common Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham , south London, England. Originally common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, it was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878 . It is 220 acres (89 hectares) of green space, with three ponds and
160-462: A C.C.C. thirteen against a 20-man Clapham side; the club's most notable win was a 1–0 win over the Wanderers in a match played to Westminster School rules, helped by the Wanderers having to use substitutes (one of whom was C.C.C.'s Edward Tayloe) as only seven visiting players - albeit including Charles W. Alcock and Alexander Morten - turned up. The last reported match was on 18 March 1871,
200-471: A Victorian bandstand. It is overlooked by large Georgian and Victorian mansions and nearby Clapham Old Town. Holy Trinity Clapham , an 18th-century Georgian church overlooking the park, is important in the history of the evangelical Clapham Sect . Half of the park is within the London Borough of Wandsworth , and the other half is within the London Borough of Lambeth . Originally common land for
240-442: A central feature, largely neighboured by upmarket new homes and expensive single-home plots of land (fashionable villas in the terms of the time). Henry Venn , since seen as the founder, was lesser clergy, Curate, there (from at least 1754) and his son John became rector (parish priest) (1792–1813). The House of Commons politicians (MPs) William Wilberforce (first elected 1780) and Henry Thornton (first elected 1782), two of
280-526: A full restoration of the bandstand and surrounding landscape took place, partly funded by an £895,000 lottery grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund matched by £300,000 from Lambeth Council and a further £100,000 from local fundraising efforts and the proceeds of the Ben and Jerry's Summer Sundae event held on the common. The drainage bund around the bandstand was restored with granite setts during
320-477: A reputation as a place for men seeking anonymous sex with other men in public places. When Welsh politician Ron Davies was robbed at knifepoint in 1998 after he gave a lift to strangers he had met in the park, there was speculation that the incident involved "cruising"; Davies resigned his position in the UK government, denying the incident had anything to do with drugs or sex. There have been several attacks on men in
360-558: A skateboard venue. In 2021, Foot Locker , in partnership with the NBA , completed the refurbishment of the Clapham Common Basketball Court. The park contains three ponds, two of which are historical features, and a more modern paddling pool known as Cock Pond. Eagle Pond and Mount Pond are used for angling and contain a variety of species including carp to 20 lb, roach , tench and bream . Eagle Pond
400-792: Is said that between a quarter and a third of Anglican clergy were linked to the movement, which by then had diversified greatly in its goals, although they were no longer considered an organised faction. Members of the group founded or were involved with a number of other societies, including the Abolition Society, formally known as the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (founded by Clarkson, Sharp and others) and run largely by white middle-class women of Quaker , Unitarian and Evangelical faiths The Society for
440-774: The British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society . After many decades of work both in British society and in Parliament , the reformers saw their efforts rewarded with the final passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807 , banning the trade throughout the British Empire and, after many further years of campaigning, the total emancipation of British slaves with the passing of
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#1732775513754480-661: The Calling Festival , which had previously been held in Hyde Park under the name Hard Rock Calling Festival, moved to Clapham Common; artists included Aerosmith and Stevie Wonder . Sporting events held in Clapham Common and sports teams based in the park include the Latin American football League, which has played organised football on the red car pitches located on the south side of the park since
520-596: The Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers and slavery abolitionists , including William Wilberforce , Lord Teignmouth and Henry Thornton . In the early 1770s, during his stay in London representing America in affairs of the state, Benjamin Franklin had written a paper explaining how he used the ponds for science experiments, and in developing a "magic" trick. While traveling on a ship, Franklin had observed that
560-582: The London Borough of Lambeth . It is wholly managed and maintained by Lambeth Council . Policing of the open space is divided between the Wandsworth and Lambeth borough "commands" of the Metropolitan Police , which follow the local government boundaries. The roads surrounding the common fall within the SW4, SW11 and SW12 postcodes. Electoral wards for Lambeth are within the eastern half of
600-648: The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 . They also campaigned vigorously for Britain to use its influence to work towards abolishing slavery throughout the world. Some of the group, Granville Sharp , Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, were responsible for the founding in 1787 of Sierra Leone as a settlement for some of the African-Americans freed by the British during the American Revolutionary War ; it thus became
640-405: The slave trade and the reform of the penal system , and recognised and advocated other cornerstone civil-political rights and socio-economic rights. Defying the status quo of labour exploitation and consequent vested interests in the legislature was laborious and was motivated by their Christian faith and concern for social justice and fairness for all human beings. Their most famous member
680-420: The 1830s often exemplified Nonconformist conscience and identified with groups functioning outside the established Anglican Church. These were reformists and abolitionists, being contemporary terms as the 'Sect' was – until 1844 – unnamed. They figured and heard readings, sermons and lessons from prominent and wealthy Evangelical Anglicans who called for the liberation of slaves , abolition of
720-591: The 1980s; the British Australian Rules Football League Grand Final, for which the park is the traditional venue; South West London Chargers rugby club formed in 2013 have their home in the park; Sunday league football is regularly played with London Titans and Clapham Alexandra football clubs using the park; various teams from other sports are also active on the park, including softball and korfball. A Lesbian & Gay Pride event, to be termed Pride House,
760-971: The Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions followed, in 1823, and there was also the Proclamation Society , the Sunday School Society , the Bettering Society , and the Small Debt Society . The Clapham Sect have been credited with playing a significant part in the development of Victorian morality , through their writings, their societies, their influence in Parliament, and their example in philanthropy and moral campaigns, especially against slavery. In
800-720: The Rights of Man and of the Citizen , together with the 1689 English Bill of Rights , the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence , and the 1789 United States Bill of Rights , inspired, in large part, the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights . The name stems from most of its figures being non-dissenting parishioners of Clapham , then a village south of London (today part of south-west London), where Wilberforce and Thornton, its two most influential leaders, often lived and met. Liturgy, sermons and sometimes meetings at Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common were
840-621: The Vicar of Holy Trinity Church , Charles Simeon had preached to students from the university , some of whom underwent an evangelical conversion experience and later became associated with the Clapham Sect. Lampooned in their day as "the saints", the group published a journal, the Christian Observer , edited by Zachary Macaulay and were also credited with the foundation of several missionary and tract societies, including
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#1732775513754880-432: The common had been drained, it still remained "quite a wild place". The common was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act in 1878. As London expanded in the 19th century, Clapham was absorbed into the capital, with most of the remaining palatial or agricultural estates replaced with terraced housing by the early 1900s. In 1911, Scottish evangelist and teacher Oswald Chambers founded and
920-650: The common; mainly in the Clapham Common and Abbeville ward with smaller parts divided between the Clapham Town ward and Clapham East ward. In Wandsworth, most of the western half of the common is in the Northcote ward and a small part of the south-western corner is in the Balham ward. Clapham Common has a range of sporting facilities, including tennis and netball courts, a running track, bowling green, cricket, football, rugby and Australian rules football pitches, and
960-705: The course of time the growth of evangelical Christian revivalism in England and the movement for Catholic emancipation fed into a waning of the old precept that every Englishman automatically counted as an Anglican. Some new Christian groups (such as the Methodists and the Plymouth Brethren ) moved away from Anglicanism, and the Christian social reformers who succeeded the Claphamites from about
1000-659: The edge of the common at its easternmost and southernmost points respectively. Both stations are served by the Northern line . In the centre of the park is a bandstand constructed in 1890. It is the largest bandstand in London and a Grade II listed building . For many years it was also erroneously thought to be one of the bandstands first erected in 1861 in the Royal Horticultural Society 's gardens in South Kensington , which would have made it
1040-889: The first non trading-post British "colony" akin to a fledgling mission state in Africa, whose purpose in Clarkson's words was "the abolition of the slave trade, the civilisation of Africa, and the introduction of the gospel there". Later, in 1792, another of the group John Clarkson was instrumental in the creation of its capital Freetown . The group are described by the historian Stephen Tomkins as "a network of friends and families in England, with William Wilberforce as its centre of gravity, who were powerfully bound together by their shared moral and spiritual values, by their religious mission and social activism, by their love for each other, and by marriage". By 1848 when evangelical bishop John Bird Sumner became Archbishop of Canterbury , it
1080-594: The most influential of the sect were parishioners and many of the meetings were held in their houses. They were encouraged by Beilby Porteus , the Bishop of London , himself an abolitionist and reformer, who sympathised with many of their aims. The term "Clapham Sect" is an almost non-contemporaneous invention by James Stephen in an article of 1844 which celebrated and romanticised the work of these reformers. The reformers were partly composed of members from St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge , where
1120-585: The oldest surviving cast iron bandstand in Europe. However, further research has shown that these bandstands went to Southwark Park and Peckham Rye , and it appears that the Clapham bandstand was fabricated to a very similar design almost thirty years later. The bandstand's maintenance had been neglected by Lambeth Council for thirty years, and by 2001 it was thought to be in danger of collapse and had to be shored up with scaffolding for five years. In 2005–2006,
1160-460: The original Crystal Palace club, and the remainder - including the Dealtry brothers, Soden, and Ker, who had played in the club's very first matches - retired from the game. Until 1870 the club listed its colours as being a black velvet cap with a red tassel and red stockings. In 1871 the club described its colours as red and black. The club played on the Clapham Common, usually finding a pitch
1200-466: The parishes of Battersea and Clapham, William Hewer was among the early Londoners to build adjacent to it. Samuel Pepys , the diarist, died at Hewer's house in 1703. The land had been used for cricket in 1700 and was drained in the 1760s, and from the 1790s onwards fine houses were built around the common as fashionable dwellings for wealthy business people in what was then a village detached from metropolitan London. Some later residents were members of
1240-630: The period from the 1780s to the 1840s. Despite the label " sect ", most members remained in the established (and dominant) Church of England , which was highly interwoven with offices of state. The Clapham movement grew from 18th-century evangelical trends in the Church of England (the Anglican Church ) and started to coalesce around residents of Clapham, especially during the rectorship there of John Venn (in office: 1792-1813) and came to engage in systematically advocating social reform. In
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1280-563: The summer of 2011 at a cost of £12,000 to resolve design faults in the earlier works. The park has hosted various musical festivals, including Colourscape Music Festival since 1989,; Get Loaded in the Park , from 2004 to 2011 when Razorlight were the headline act; South West Four Eurodance music festival annually in August since 2004; and other music events, such as Subway Picnic Rocks in 2008, organised by Action Against Hunger In 2014
1320-402: The vicinity of the park, including one in 2005 on a young man, Jody Dobrowski , thought by his attackers to be gay, during which he was badly beaten and later died. The incident was the impetus for the making of the 2007 Channel 4 film Clapham Junction . Clapham Sect The Clapham Sect , or Clapham Saints , were a group of social reformers associated with Holy Trinity Clapham in
1360-523: The wake of a ship was diminished when the cooks scuttled their greasy water. He studied the effects at Clapham Common on a large pond there. "I fetched out a cruet of oil and dropt a little of it on the water ... though not more than a teaspoon full, produced an instant calm over a space of several yards square." He later used the trick to "calm the waters" by carrying "a little oil in the hollow joint of my cane." J. M. W. Turner painted "View on Clapham Common" between 1800 and 1805, showing that even though
1400-628: Was William Wilberforce , widely commemorated in monuments and credited with hastening the end of the slave trade. Electoral and other political rights were a main cause of all Radicals then their Northern successors the Chartists , their shared earliest success being the Great Reform Act 1832 . Many of the other key rights saw a comparative context in treatises of the Age of Enlightenment , and Age of Revolutions . France's 1789 Declaration of
1440-537: Was a 2–1 win over a "scratch eleven" on 4 January 1864, the scratch eleven being made up of other members of the club. The first genuine external match followed on 16 January, a 2–0 home win against the Montague Club. The club played the Blackheath Rugby Club under the latter's rules (similar to rugby, but with a different offside rule) in 1865, winning 4–0. The biggest win was a 6–0 win for
1480-527: Was captain of the Rovers in the latter's first match in 1869. In the 1869–70 season, the club only played seven matches, with three 0–0 draws, three 1–0 defeats, and scoring just the one goal, in a win over Brentwood School . By 1871, although the C.C.C. boasted 76 members, the Rovers cluld claim over 100. From 1872, two of the C.C.C. regulars were playing for the Civil Service F.C. , others played for
1520-419: Was extensively refurbished in 2005 when it was completely drained, landscaped and replanted to provide a better habitat for the fish it contained. Long Pond has a century-old tradition of use for model boating. Holy Trinity Church (1776) is close to the north side of the park. An Anglican church, it hosts its fete in the park every summer. Clapham Common and Clapham South Underground stations are on
1560-454: Was planned to take place on the park during the 2012 Summer Olympics, but ran into opposition from the Friends of Clapham Common and was eventually cancelled for lack of funding. Every Easter and February half-term George Irvin's Funfair visits the park. On 13 March 2021, a vigil was held on the common following the death of Sarah Everard , who was kidnapped nearby. Clapham Common has
1600-649: Was principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham Common, an "embarrassingly elegant" property situated at 45 North Side that had been purchased by the Pentecostal League of Prayer. During World War II , a heavy anti-aircraft artillery site had been set up on the common. Storage bunkers were built on the Battersea Rise side; two mounds remain. Half of the common is within the London Borough of Wandsworth and half within
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