Warrington Crescent is a street in Maida Vale in London . Located in the City of Westminster , it is a crescent curving north eastwards from Warwick Avenue until it reaches a roundabout where it meets including Randolph Avenue , Sutherland Avenue and Lauderdale Road . Warrington Gardens and Formosa Street both lead westwards off Warrington Crescent.
6-499: Street layout plans for the area were first drawn up in the 1820s by architect George Gutch in a style similar to Tyburnia next to Hyde Park , but work on Warrington Crescent didn't begin until the Victorian era . Much of the street consists of white stucco terraces . In 1915 Warwick Avenue tube station was opened where the street meets Warwick Avenue, and was originally planned to be called Warrington Crescent. Nearby towards
12-678: The German bombing of the capital during the First World War . A large bomb fell on Warrington Crescent, destroying or damaging several houses and killing twelve people and wounding many others. The American lyricist Lena Ford , who wrote the words to the popular wartime song " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", was killed. 51°31′32″N 0°11′03″W / 51.52549°N 0.18418°W / 51.52549; -0.18418 George Gutch George Gutch (1790-1894)
18-546: The grand terraces, now listed buildings (statutorily protected) in Hyde Park Square and adjoining streets. This was part of his Final Plan for Tyburnia of 1838, which enlisted other architects for some buildings such as George Ledwell Taylor . These still private-housing dominated neighbourhoods in Bayswater focus on and have been widely, popularly, re-branded Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village . He
24-476: The southern end of the street are St Saviour's Church and the Colonnade Hotel . At the northern end is the listed Warrington Hotel . Blue plaques commemorate notable former residents David Ben-Gurion , the first Prime Minister of Israel , and the mathematician Alan Turing . The poet John Davidson also lived in the street. In March 1918 the street was subject to a Zeppelin raid as part of
30-402: Was District Surveyor for more than 50 years for Paddington as a parish-turned-district. Gutch was tasked to finish the designs for St James' Church , Sussex Gardens , in what is now termed Lancaster Gate (with or without optional suffixes, Bayswater, Paddington) (c. 1841) as John Goldicutt died. The latter's proposed an equally yellow brick but to be cleanly neo-classical . Gutch changed
36-574: Was a British architect and to four successive Bishops of London surveyor for much of the Diocese 's c. 500-acre (2.0 km ) southern strip of the parish of Paddington . Gutch was son of Rev. John Gutch, rector of St Clement's and registrar of the University of Oxford. His work helped to realise much of the 1824 masterplan promoted and drawn by Samuel Pepys Cockerell . Gutch laid out roads, communal garden areas and designed certain of
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