Elgin Avenue is a street in Maida Vale in London. Located in the City of Westminster , it runs east to west from the A5 road close to Maida Vale tube station west to the Maida Hill area where it meets the Harrow Road . Sutherland Avenue runs roughly parallel to the south and is connected to Elgin Avenue by Lauderdale Road . The road continues east of the A5 as Abercorn Place which runs through St. John's Wood .
6-459: The area was built as part of the rapid expansion of London in the first half of the nineteenth century. It was laid out as part of a plan for the area by the architect George Gutch in 1827, who envisaged a series of long avenues . While isolated villas were built from the 1820s, it was not for several decades that the street was completed. It was known as Elgin Road until 1886, and takes its name from
12-536: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . George Gutch George Gutch (1790-1894) 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
18-669: The 1824 masterplan promoted and drawn by Samuel Pepys Cockerell . Gutch laid out roads, communal garden areas and designed certain of 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
24-587: The Lord Elgin Arms public house . Later in the century many of the original villas were replaced by mansion blocks . In 1915 the new Maida Vale tube station was opened as part of an extension of the Bakerloo Line north from Paddington . It is located on the corner of the junction of Elgin Avenue and Randolph Avenue and is Grade II listed and was designed by Stanley Heaps . It was originally proposed to name
30-507: The station Elgin Avenue, but Maida Vale was ultimately chosen to reflect the wider area. The artist Edward Ardizzone lived in the street from 1920 to 1972 and is now commemorated with a blue plaque . Artist and political activist Peter Kennard was born on Elgin Avenue in Maida Vale . 51°31′39″N 0°11′28″W / 51.5276°N 0.1911°W / 51.5276; -0.1911 This London road or road transport-related article
36-402: 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
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