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65-689: Gloucester Place is a street in Marylebone in Central London . Located in the City of Westminster , it runs north from Portman Square across the Marylebone Road eventually merging into Park Road. It is parallel to Baker Street to the east and forms part of the A41 road from nearby Marble Arch . The Portman Estate was developed into grids of streets for affluent residential housing from

130-465: A blue plaque commemorates him. Another blue plaque appears on Dorset House where Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 's film production company was headquartered during the 1940s. 51°31′15″N 0°09′39″W  /  51.52072°N 0.16091°W  / 51.52072; -0.16091 Marylebone Marylebone (usually / ˈ m ɑːr l ɪ b ən / MAR -lib-ən , also / ˈ m ær ɪ ( l ə ) b ən / MARR -i(l-ə)b-ən )

195-544: A conservation area The blocks were named mostly for the notable former residents of Lisson Grove and its surrounding areas, which drew Victorian landscape painters, sculptors, portraitists and architects: After World War II , further social housing was completed at the Church Street Estate (1949) and the larger Lisson Green Estate (1975). In 1960 a new Labour Exchange was established on Lisson Grove to much fanfare, and later featured in punk music history as

260-513: A fixed rental under Elizabeth I. Forest's manor of Marylebone then passed by marriage to the Austen family. The deer park, Marylebone Park Fields, was let out in small holdings for hay and dairy produce. The Ancient Parish's church, St Marylebone Parish Church , has been rebuilt several times at various locations within the parish. The earliest known church dedicated to St John the Evangelist

325-519: A large house. By 1817, Rossi was renting out a section of the house to painter Benjamin Haydon . A blue plaque on the corner of Rossmore Road and Lisson Grove marks the spot and in 2000 author Penelope Hughes-Hallett wrote The Immortal Dinner with the focus on Haydon's dining companions invited to his Lisson Grove abode on 28 December 1817. Haydon's protégé Edwin Landseer lived north on Lisson Grove on

390-486: A public house, this was named for the magical artefact, a speaking brass head, 13th century Friar Roger Bacon created, and the subject of legend circulating in the 16th century. The most famous Brazen Head features in James Joyce's Ulysses. The legend is that the pub is named for a herbalist had lived on the site of the pub, due to the nearby spring which had curative properties. Noted for the eye lotion produced from

455-590: Is Latin for "let it be according to thy word", a phrase used in the Gospel of Luke . The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, after which, with the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster it was merged into the City of Westminster . The Metropolitan Borough inherited the boundaries of

520-483: Is a purpose built fringe theatre venue promoting "Theatre of Ideas and ensemble working. Its regular classes and workshops, comfortable bar and friendly team enable this creative hub to support performers, the industry, diverse audiences, the local community and free radicals alike." The Schmidt hammer lassen -designed City of Westminster College at 25 Paddington Green contains the Siddons Theatre, named for

585-674: Is a street and district in the City of Westminster , West London . The West End neighbourhood contains a few important cultural landmarks, including Lisson Gallery , Alfies Antique Market , Red Bus Recording Studios, the former Christ Church , now the Greenhouse Centre, Stringers of London and the Seashell of Lisson Grove . The heart of the community and retail/services zone is Church Street Market , which runs between Lisson Grove itself and Edgware Road .The market specialises in antiques and bric-à-brac, and has flourished since

650-432: Is also served by numerous tube stations: Baker Street , Bond Street , Edgware Road (Bakerloo line) , Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines) , Great Portland Street , Marble Arch , Marylebone , Oxford Circus , and Regent's Park . Marylebone was an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors (landholdings) of Lileston (in the west, which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove ) and Tyburn in

715-532: Is an area in London , England and is located in the City of Westminster . It is in Central London and part of the West End . Oxford Street forms its southern boundary. An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough , it merged with the boroughs of Westminster and Paddington to form the new City of Westminster in 1965. Marylebone station lies two miles north-west of Charing Cross . The area

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780-570: Is focused on a collaborative and process-driven approach to production, be that artwork, exhibitions, discussions, publications, knowledge and relationships. Church Street runs parallel to St John's Wood Road and plays host to a varied market Mondays–Saturdays, 8am–6pm selling fruit and vegetables, clothes, and bags amongst other items. Towards the Lisson Grove end of Church Street is Alfies Antique Market , London's largest indoor market for antiques, collectables, vintage, and 20th century design

845-710: Is in the former Jordans Department Store, decorated with an Egyptian art deco theme similar to the Aeroworks – the indoor market, "houses more than 200 permanent stall holders and covers in excess of 35,000 sq ft of shop space on five floors." Opened in 1976 by Bennie Gray, in the then derelict department store, the Antiques Market has since spawned twenty or so individual shops at the Lisson Grove end of Church Street specialising in mainly 20th-century art and collectables The Metropolitan Music Hall, re-launched with great refurbishment and extended capacity in 1867,

910-659: Is named after a Portman family estate in Buckinghamshire, itself named after a local family there made-good in Tudor days. Tucked away, with a few terraced houses, Bulstrode Street has been the home of minor health care professionals for hundreds of years. The RADA student and aspiring actress Vivien Leigh , aged twenty in 1933, gave birth at the Rahere Nursing Home, then at number 8, to her first child. The north end of Welbeck Street joins New Cavendish Street,

975-564: Is one of the finest surviving Adam houses in London, and now lets rooms. Wimpole Street runs from Henrietta Place north to Devonshire Street, becoming Upper Wimpole en route – the latter where Arthur Conan Doyle opened his ophthalmic practice at number 2 in 1891; Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes also had his residence in Marylebone at 221b Baker Street . Nearby at a six-floor Grade II 18th-century house at 57 Wimpole Street

1040-560: Is where Paul McCartney resided from 1964 to 1966, staying on the top floor of girlfriend Jane Asher 's family home in a room overlooking Browning Mews in the back, and with John Lennon writing " I Want to Hold Your Hand " on a piano in the basement. A further Beatles connection is that they, and many other musicians have recorded at the Abbey Road Studios . At her father's house at number 50 Wimpole Street lived for some time between 1840 and 1845, Elizabeth Barrett, then known as

1105-516: The City of Westminster in 1965. The Manor of Lileston subdivided c.  1236 with the Manor of Lisson green becoming an independent landholding. The edges of Lisson Grove are defined by the two current Edgware Road stations facing onto Edgware Road or Watling Street as it was previously known, one of the main Roman thoroughfares in and out of London. The road is also the western boundary of

1170-602: The Dukes of Portland landholdings and Georgian-era developments there. In 1879 the fifth Duke died without issue and the estate passed through the female line to his sister, Lucy Joan Bentinck, widow of the 6th Baron Howard de Walden . Most of the Manor of Lileston was acquired by Sir William Portman in 1554, and much of this was developed by his descendants as the Portman Estate in the late 1700s. Both estates have aristocratic antecedents and are still run by members of

1235-689: The England and Wales Cricket Board , with the England national team as one of a number of home venues. The ground is sometimes called the Home of Cricket . The Borough of St Marylebone was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms in 1901. The crest includes the Virgin Mary wearing a silver robe with a light blue mantle, holding the infant Jesus, dressed in gold. The wavy light blue bars represent

1300-568: The River Tyburn while the gold roses and lilies are taken from the arms of Barking Abbey , which held the Manor of Tyburn and first established the parish church. The version used by the Abbey was placed against a red border, and some versions of Marylebone's arms have made extensive use of red. The roses and lilies ultimately derive from the legend that when Mary's tomb was opened it contained those flowers. The motto "Fiat secundum Verbum Tuum"

1365-567: The Tyburn , where in 1400 a parish church dedicated to St Mary was built. Since the 12th century, the area had been synonymous with the Tyburn gallows , where public executions regularly took place at the crossroads of the Tyburn and old Roman road. Eager to distance themselves from the notorious gallows, the villagers took inspiration from their new church and began calling the hamlet St Mary-burne ("the stream of St Mary", burne coming from

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1430-400: The 1960s. The area saw its suburban decades – on the edge of London – from the late 18th century, and some fine Georgian terraces remain. Early residents included artists such as Benjamin Haydon and Charles Rossi , whose former cottage still stands at 116 Lisson Grove. Lord's Cricket Ground adjoined Lisson Grove in the early nineteenth century before re-locating to St Johns Wood,

1495-622: The 1970s been viewed as a part of Fitzrovia . Local places of interest include Marylebone Village, most of Regent's Park; Marylebone Station ; and Lord's Cricket Ground , the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the original site of the MCC at Dorset Square. Areas and features of Marylebone include: The area is served by routes 2 , 13 , 18 , 27 , 30 , 74 , 113 , 139 , 189 , 205 , 274 , 453 and night routes N18 and N74 . Lisson Grove Lisson Grove

1560-532: The 20th Century. On Bell Street, the Lisson Gallery , established in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail, championed the new British sculptors of the 1980s and continues to show new and established artists, with expanded premises further along Bell Street. Mark Jason Gallery at No. 1 Bell Street specialises in promoting contemporary British and international artists. In 2006 the Subway Gallery arrived in

1625-628: The Ancient Parish which had been fixed since at least the 12th century. Marylebone Town Hall was completed in 1920. Marylebone was the scene of the Balcombe Street siege in 1975, when Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held two people hostage for almost a week. Marylebone is characterised by major streets on a grid pattern such as Gloucester Place , Baker Street , Marylebone High Street , Wimpole Street , Harley Street and Portland Place , with smaller mews between

1690-693: The Anglo-Saxon word burna for a small stream). This stream rose further north in ( Hampstead ), eventually running along what became Marylebone Lane , which preserves its curve within the grid pattern. In the 17th century, under the influence of names like Mary-le-Bow , the French article le appeared midway in the parish name, and eventually St Mary-le-bourne became St Marylebone. Other spelling iterations include Mariburn , Marybone , and in Samuel Pepys ' diary, Marrowbone . The suggestion that

1755-546: The Joe Strummer Subway which runs under the Marylebone Road. Conceived by artist Robert Gordon McHarg III, the space itself is a 1960s kiosk with glass walls which creates a unique showcase for art, interacting naturally with passers by, visitors and the local community. The Show Room is on Penfold Street, next to the main Aeroworks factory. The Show Room is a non-profit space for contemporary art that

1820-428: The Marylebone Road there is an area with a colourful history, which includes the former Marylebone Gardens, whose entertainments including bare-knuckle fighting, a cemetery, a workhouse, and the areas frequented by Charles Wesley , all shut down by the close of the 18th century, where today there are mansion blocks and upper-end retail. At No. 1 Dorset Street resided mid-Victorian scientist Charles Babbage , inventor of

1885-621: The National Gallery scattered throughout the house, walls covered in tack holes and a drawing room inhabited by cats with no tails. During the same period a few hundred yards to the east, Chandos House in Chandos Street was used as the Austro-Hungarian Embassy and residence of the fabulously extravagant Ambassador Prince Paul Anton III Esterhazy, seeing entertainment on a most lavish scale. The building

1950-553: The Oxford Road (now Oxford St), commissioned the surveyor and builder John Prince to draw a master plan that set Cavendish Square in a rational grid system of streets. The Harley heiress Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley married William, 2nd Duke of Portland , and took the property, including Marylebone High Street , into the Bentinck family. Such place names in the neighbourhood as Cavendish Square and Portland Place reflect

2015-621: The Prime Minister, David Lloyd George , announced a policy of "Homes Fit for Heroes", leading to a sponsored housing boom from which Lisson Grove benefitted. In 1924, St Marylebone Borough Council completed the Fisherton Street Estate of seven apartment blocks in red-brick neo-Georgian style with high mansard roofs grouped around two courtyards. Noted for their innovation as some of the first social housing to include an indoor bathroom and toilet, since 1990 this has been

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2080-572: The Second World War. In 1960s two-some John Dunbar and TV repairman " Magic Alex " lived on the street, where the former introduced the latter to John Lennon in 1967. Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife , who was a qualified nurse, founded a nursing home in Bentinck Street, and served as its matron. Manchester Square, west of Bentinck Street, has a central private garden with plane trees, laid out in 1776-88. The mansion on

2145-507: The aforementioned families. The Howard de Walden Estate owns, leases and manages the majority of the 92 acres (37 ha) of real estate in Marylebone which comprises the area from Marylebone High Street in the west to Robert Adam 's Portland Place in the east and from Wigmore Street in the south to Marylebone Road in the north. In the 18th century the area was known for the raffish entertainments in Marylebone Gardens ,

2210-648: The analytical engine. Babbage complained that two adjacent hackney-coach stands in Paddington Street ruined the neighbourhood, leading to the establishment of coffee and beer shops, and furthermore, the character of the new population could be inferred from the taste they exhibited for the noisiest and most discordant music. An acclaimed international venue for chamber music, the Wigmore Hall , opened at 36 Wigmore Street in 1901. It hosts over 500 concerts each year. The Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood

2275-401: The author of a volume of poems, and who afterwards escaped and was better known as Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Today, at the bottom end of Wimpole at Wigmore can be found a sandwich shop named Barrett's. Bentinck Street leaves Welbeck Street and touches the middle of winding Marylebone Lane . Charles Dickens lived at number 18 with his indebted father (on whom the character Wilkins Micawber

2340-525: The borough with a substantial estate renewal programme underway. The heart of the community and retail is Church Street Market , which runs between Lisson Grove itself and Edgware Road .The market specialises in antiques and bric-à-brac, and has flourished since the 1960s. The area has a long association with art, artists and theatre. In 1810 the Royal Academy catalogues give sculptor Charles Rossi 's address as 21 Lisson Grove, where he had bought

2405-579: The corner of St John's Wood Road from 1825. The arrival of Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema at nearby 44, Grove End Road in the late 1870s inspired the naming of one of the Lilestone Estate apartment blocks built in the 1920s as Tadema House. Eastlake House, opposite Tadema House, is possibly named for Charles Eastlake whose Eastlake movement 's underlying ethos of simple decorative devices that were affordable and easy to keep clean would have been of interest to those developing social housing in

2470-477: The east. The parish is likely to have been in place since at least the twelfth century and will have used the boundaries of the pre-existing manors. The boundaries of the parish were consistent from the late twelfth century to the creation of the Metropolitan Borough which succeeded it. The name Marylebone originates from an ancient hamlet located near today's Marble Arch , on the eastern banks of

2535-466: The greater part of the manor; in 1544 his son Thomas exchanged it with Henry VIII, who enclosed the northern part of the manor as a deer park , the distant origin of Regent's Park . Lilestone Manor also passed into the hands of the Crown at this time. Tyburn manor remained with the Crown until the southern part was sold in 1611 by James I, who retained the deer park, to Edward Forest, who had held it as

2600-484: The highest concentrations of social housing in the borough with a substantial estate renewal programme underway. For the etymology behind the district's street names see Street names of Lisson Grove Lisson Grove, occasionally referred to as Lissom Grove, takes its name from the manor (estate) of Lileston, which was included in the Domesday Book in 1086. Domesday recorded the presence of 8 households within

2665-614: The major streets. Mansfield Street is a short continuation of Chandos Street built by the Adam brothers in 1770, on a plot of ground which had been underwater. Most of its houses are fine buildings with exquisite interiors, which if put on the market now would have an expected price in excess of £10 million. At Number 13 lived religious architect John Loughborough Pearson who died in 1897, and designer of Castle Drogo and New Delhi Sir Edwin Lutyens , who died in 1944. Immediately across

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2730-462: The manor, suggesting a population of around forty. The manor stretched as far as the boundary with Hampstead . From the 12th century onwards, the Manor of Lileston and the neighbouring Manor of Tyburn ) were served by the Parish of St Marylebone , an area which had consistent boundaries until the parish's successor, the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone merged with neighbouring areas to form

2795-463: The mid-eighteenth century. Gloucester Place was named after the Duke of Gloucester , younger brother of George III . The street has largely kept its original Georgian character . For some of the route the street is paralleled by Gloucester Place Mews to the west. Once part of the mews stabling for the houses, it now consists of independent dwellings. The 1935 art deco Dorset House apartment block

2860-589: The much acclaimed 18th century tragedienne Sarah Siddons , buried at St Mary on Paddington Green . The Anglican parish church for most of the area is St Paul's Marylebone in Rossmore Road. The former church of Christ Church, Marylebone , designed by Thomas Hardwick in 1822–24 closed in 1977. The parish merged with St Paul's and building is now a leisure facility. The Anglican church of St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate in Glentworth Street

2925-635: The name derives from Marie la Bonne , or "Mary the Good", is not substantiated. Both manors were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Domesday recorded eight households in each manor, implying a combined population of less than a hundred. At Domesday the Manor of Lilestone was valued at 60 shillings and owned by a woman called Ediva. Tyburn was a possession of the Nunnery of Barking Abbey and valued at 52 shillings. The ownership of both manors

2990-480: The name of which changed from Upper Marylebone Street after World War I . Number 13 in New Cavendish Street, at its junction with Welbeck Street and on the corner of Marylebone Street, was the birthplace in 1882 of the orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski , the son of a Polish cabinet maker. He sang as a boy in the choir of St Marylebone Church. At the northern end of Marylebone High Street towards

3055-649: The north side of the square, now the home of the Wallace Collection , once housed the Spanish ambassador, whose chapel was in Spanish Place . From the north-west corner is Manchester Street, final home of Georgian-era prophet Joanna Southcott , who died there in 1814. Marylebone has some Beatles heritage, with John Lennon's flat at 34 Montagu Square, and the original Apple Corps headquarters at 95 Wigmore Street. Bulstrode Street, small and charming,

3120-498: The place where members of The Clash first met. The area also became known for its antiques trade. In the 2010s, Westminster City Council have proposed extensive regeneration. Lisson Grove is predominantly residential in West London , with a mid-to-high population density for Inner London. The council's profile describes Church Street as an ethnically diverse ward, having one of the highest concentrations of social housing in

3185-503: The road at 61 New Cavendish Street lived Natural History Museum creator Alfred Waterhouse . Queen Anne Street is an elegant cross-street which unites the northern end of Chandos Street with Welbeck Street. The painter J. M. W. Turner moved to 47 Queen Anne Street in 1812 from 64 Harley Street, now divided into numbers 22 and 23, and owned the house until his death in 1851. It was known as "Turner's Den", becoming damp, dilapidated, dusty, dirty, with dozens of Turner's works of art now in

3250-477: The scene of bear-baiting and prize fights by members of both sexes, and for the duelling grounds in Marylebone Fields. The Marylebone Cricket Club , for many years the governing body of world cricket, was formed in 1787 and initially based at Dorset Fields before moving a short distance to its current home at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1814. Lord's is also home to Middlesex County Cricket Club and

3315-516: The school and the Egyptian sculpture garden), window walls with fine black mullions, "assertive" gables, and Baker's bold geometrical masonry forms, and grand symmetry and rhythms. The interior lobby is lined in Carrara marble , with corridors lined with Ruabon tiles . When asked "Why the marble, Mr Manasseh?" he was reported as saying "Because it's boy-proof." Not a particularly popular name for

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3380-462: The similar-size district to the north. The area is bounded by St John's Wood Road to the north, Regent's Park to the east, Edgware Road to the west and Marylebone Road to the south. Church Street electoral ward , as currently drawn, is approximately the same. Lisson Grove is predominantly residential, with a mid-to-high population density for Inner London. The council's profile describes Church Street as an ethnically diverse ward, having one of

3445-474: The site. The nearest London Underground stations are Baker Street , Edgware Road (Bakerloo line) , Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines) , Paddington station , Warwick Avenue and Marylebone . Bus routes serving the road Lisson Grove are 139 (West Hampstead to Waterloo via Trafalgar Square), 189 (Brent Cross to Oxford Street). Edgware Road bus stops for Lisson Grove are served by bus routes 16, 6, 98, 414. In Pygmalion ,

3510-578: The south and Watling Street ( Edgware Road ) to the west, and positioned on both sides of the former River Tyburn which flowed from north to south. To the north (Boundary Road in St John's Wood) and east (running through Regent's Park and along Cleveland Street ), the area's boundaries have later been inherited as part of the northern and eastern boundary of the modern City of Westminster . This area includes localities such as St John's Wood , Lisson Grove and East Marylebone. East Marylebone has since

3575-454: The spring water, all subsequent leaseholders were obliged to sign a clause requiring them to offer the eye lotion for free on request, in his memory. As recently as 1954 Stanley Coleman wrote in his 'Treasury of Folklore: London' "that you may ask [at the bar] for eye lotion and the publican will measure you out an ounce or two" though it no longer came from the well in the cellar which had dried up when Edgware Road Tube station had been built on

3640-580: The wider Marylebone district. Until the late 18th century the district remained essentially rural. Much of Lisson Grove had become a slum in Victorian London, notorious for drinking, crime and prostitution particularly in its pockets of extreme poverty with archetypal squalor, overcrowding and dilapidation. The arrival of the Regent's Canal in 1810 and the railway at Marylebone in 1899 led to rapid urbanisation of Lisson Grove. After World War I ,

3705-565: Was at 267, Edgware Road, opposite Edgware Road (Bakerloo) tube station entrance/exit and Bell Street. Paddington Green police station stands here instead, having moved to make way for the Marylebone flyover. The Royal West London Theatre was on Church Street, a commemorative plaque above the Church Street Library marking its place. From 1904 onwards Charlie Chaplin trod the boards as a teenager. Currently Lisson Grove has two theatres. The Cockpit Theatre on Gateforth Street

3770-658: Was based) while working as a court reporter in the 1830s, and Edward Gibbon wrote much of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while living at number 7 from the early 1770s. James Smithson wrote the will that led to the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution while living at number 9 in 1826, while number 10 was briefly graced by Chopin in 1848, who found his apartment too expensive and moved to Mayfair. More recently, Cambridge spies Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess lived at 5 Bentinck Street during

3835-488: Was completed in 1935 at the junction with Marylebone Road. On the opposite corner of the junction is the neo classical Marylebone Town Hall the side of which faces onto Gloucester Place. Notable historic residents have included Mary Anne Clarke the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York and the American General Benedict Arnold . Novelist Wilkie Collins lived at 65 Gloucester Place where

3900-455: Was established by Barking Abbey, which held Manor of Tyburn, at an unknown date, but probably sometime in the 12th century. This church was located on the north side of Oxford Street, probably near the junction with Marylebone Lane. This site was subject to regular robbery and in 1400 a new church was built, around 900 metres further north. and given the name St Mary by the Bourne . This church

3965-408: Was established in 2007 on the site of the former Rutherford School for Boys. The main building of the secondary school is Grade II* listed, designed by Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker in 1957 and completed in 1960. Mannaseh's style has been described as displaying a digested influence of Le Corbusier with traits including "crispness", glazed or tiled pyramids (see the inverted pyramid on the roof of

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4030-744: Was established in 2016 to improve the air quality of the area. Westminster City Council in partnership with local residents, businesses and stakeholders completed a green grid of 800 new trees on Marylebone's streets in 2019. The area was represented by the St Marylebone UK Parliament constituency between 1918 and 1983. The area is currently divided between the Cities of London and Westminster and Westminster North parliamentary constituencies. These are represented by Nickie Aiken and Karen Buck respectively. The parish and borough were bounded by two Roman roads, Oxford Street to

4095-490: Was rebuilt in 1740 with a new building erected a little further north in 1817. In 1710, John Holles, Duke of Newcastle , purchased the manor for £17,500, and his daughter and heir, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles , by her marriage to Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford , passed it into the family of the Earl of Oxford, one of whose titles was Lord Harley of Wigmore. She and the earl, realising the need for fashionable housing north of

4160-445: Was the first church designed by celebrated architect Ninian Comper . According to Ian Nairn it has the most joyful church interior in London. There a number of nurseries in Lisson Grove, two run by London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) at Luton Street and Lisson Green. Primary schools are St. Edward's Catholic Primary School , Gateway Academy on Gateforth Street and King Solomon Primary. Ark King Solomon Academy , an Ark school ,

4225-653: Was the same as it had been before the Conquest. Lilestone became the property of the Knights Templar until their suppression in 1312. It then passed to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem , whose name is the origin of the place name St John's Wood . Early in the 13th century Tyburn was held by Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford . At the end of the 15th century Thomas Hobson bought up

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