4-498: Kensington Central Library is a Grade II* listed building on Hornton Street and Phillimore Walk, Kensington , London. It was built in 1958–60 by the architect E. Vincent Harris on the site of The Abbey, a Gothic house which had been constructed for a Mr Abbot in 1880 and destroyed by bombing in 1944. It was opened by the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 13 July 1960. The building was designed in
8-715: A lion and a unicorn, both holding the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom . They were sculpted by William McMillan in order to reflect the "Royal" status of the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This article about a London building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hornton Street Hornton Street is a street in Kensington , London W8. It runs north to south from Sheffield Terrace to Kensington High Street . Some of
12-514: A traditional, English, renaissance-style. There were demonstrations against the project by those who advocated for the building to be in a modern style. The public library is within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is managed as part of a tri-borough integrated library and archive service, alongside those of Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham . On the south side of the library, facing Phillimore Walk, are two statues of
16-588: The road, at least, was originally called Campden House Road . A chapel on the corner of Hornton Street and Hornton Place was built in 1794 for Congregationalists on land owned by William Phillimore . By 1858, it became a Baptist chapel. However, it was demolished in 1927. The street was home to a Nonconformist school until it was torn down in 1868 for the construction of the Metropolitan Railway . The musician Sir Charles Stanford (1852–1924) lived at No. 56 from 1894 to 1916, and this
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