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  • Etymology and history
  • Canons Park
  • St Lawrence Whitchurch
  • Barnet F.C.
  • Services and transport
  • Housing
  • Notes
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Canons Park is a public park and the name of its surrounding residential area, in the Edgware district of the London Borough of Harrow, north-west London. Canons Park was a country estate which partially survives today as a public park. St. Lawrence's Church, the parish church of Little Stanmore, and the accompanying Chandos Mausoleum are located here.

Etymology and history

"Canons" refers to the canons or monks of the Augustinian priory of St Bartholomew in Smithfield, London. The site was a part of the endowment of the Priory of St Bartholomew's which operated St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

Canons Park is largely located on the site of the magnificent early 18th-century country house Cannons built between 1713 and 1725 by Brydges, after his wife Mary died, along with his second wife, Cassandra Willoughby. [1]

A few years after the Duke's death in 1744 this house was also demolished. The current building on the site housing the North London Collegiate School was built around 1760 by the gentleman cabinet-maker William Hallett. The original house-site, transformed into ambitious Edwardian gardens was bought in 1929 by the school for £17,500 (equivalent to £1,344,000in 2023) [2] . A large portion of the original gardens of James Brydges' house now form the public pleasure gardens of Canons Park. The modern park includes the Memorial Gardens, a folly known as 'the Temple' (not to be confused with a different folly of the same name within the North London Collegiate School grounds) and an orchard.

Canons Drive follows the original path of the entrance to James Brydges' house, retaining the two large pillars which acted as gateposts where it met the Edgware Road. The remains of a second, raised, carriageway running from Cannons can be traced through Canons Park in the direction of Whitchurch Lane. A 7-acre (28,000 m2) lake and a separate duck pond also formed part of the original Cannons Estate and survive within the boundaries of the Canons Drive residential area. [3]

Canons Park

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Canons Park Garden Temple
View in the Canons Park; North London Collegiate School can be seen in the background Canons Park - geograph.org.uk - 486346.jpg
View in the Canons Park; North London Collegiate School can be seen in the background

Canons Park, 18 hectares (44 acres) in size, is listed as Grade II on the Register of Parks and Gardens. [4] . The designation recognises features surviving from the ducal park (including two lakes, the Basin Lake and the Seven Acre Lake - the latter being a private lake for owners of property on the Canons Park Estate), as well as more recent features.

The main park has entrances at Howberry Road on the West side - with a bridge going over the Jubilee underground line, Whitchurch lane and Donnefield Avenue to the South and the end of Canons Drive on the East side. Across from the Howberry Road entrance is an extension - essentially a footpath - connecting Howberry Road with Marsh Lane.

The park contains several listed buildings including a bothy, now used as the base for Liam's in the Park coffee shop (the "Good Friends of Canon's Park" cafe) and the Garden Temple.

The King George V Memorial Garden is a walled garden in the park. This area was originally part of the duke's kitchen gardens and was re-designed in the 1930s, after the park became public. The garden reflects the 1930s period, with a structure of evergreens highlighted by seasonal displays. It features a central square pool surrounded by a raised terrace with steps, formal flower beds and a pavilion. In 2006-7 the garden and the park were restored with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. [5]

Two woodland walks on each side of the park preserve the woodland. The first and shorter walk goes from just after the railway bridge near the Howberry Road entrance, to the green just below the Bothy and the Good Friends Cafe. The second walk goes from Canons Park Drive down the whole park to St Lawrence's Church. Parallel to this is the tree-lined carriage way leading from Whitchurch Lane to what is now North London Collegiate School but was originally the path taken by carriages to the mansion itself.

There is a large enclosed play area with swings, a slide, and various other children's playground equipment to the south of the coffee shop. Nearby is a climbing rock, a basketball hoop and two table-tennis tables. Near the cafe is an outside activity gym and a garden centre operated by the Shaw Trust.

St Lawrence Whitchurch

Main article: St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch
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St Lawrence Church

Situated adjacent to the public park is the church of St Lawrence Whitchurch, the parish church of Little Stanmore. The church has a stone tower dating from c. 1360 and the main body of the church was rebuilt in a Continental Baroque style in 1714-16 for Brydges by John James (Colvin). The interior walls and ceiling are covered with paintings.

On the north side of the church is the Chandos Mausoleum, again built to the order of the first Duke of Chandos. The centrepiece documented by Grinling Gibbons, 1717, is a Baroque monument to the Duke and his first two wives, for which the Duke felt he had overpaid. [6] In addition to James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos and his first two wives, James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos has also been buried here.

Barnet F.C.

Barnet F.C.'s training ground complex, The Hive, opened in the locality in 2009. The club constructed their new 5,176 capacity home ground at the site, which opened in summer 2013, and is shared with Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Women and London Bees.

Services and transport

The area is served by Canons Park tube station of the London Underground. The 79, 186 and 340 buses go past the station.

Housing

Canons Drive in the 1990s, showing Wellingtonia trees lining the drive Canons Drive 90s.jpg
Canons Drive in the 1990s, showing Wellingtonia trees lining the drive
Commemorative sign at the start of Canons Drive, giving historical note Plaque, Canons Drive, Edgware - geograph.org.uk - 4169734.jpg
Commemorative sign at the start of Canons Drive, giving historical note
Houses in Cloyster Wood in Canons Park. Note: this is not part of the Canons Park Estate and is a residential street off Howberry Road, Canons Park Cloyster Wood 1994.jpg
Houses in Cloyster Wood in Canons Park. Note: this is not part of the Canons Park Estate and is a residential street off Howberry Road, Canons Park
The distinctive look of the road, with these trees, makes it a favourite site for films and it often fills in for residential streets in affluent US cities.

Arthur Du Cros purchased Canons in the 1890s. [7]

Du Cros's involvement is commemorated in some local street names - specifically Du Cros Drive, Craigweil Drive and Craigweil Close named after Du Cros's house in Bognor.

Notes

  1. ↑ https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/4277
  2. ↑ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  3. ↑ https://canonsparkfriends.org/history/
  4. ↑ "Canons Park". Historic England.
  5. ↑ "Canons Park - George V Memorial Garden". Open Squares. Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (rev. ed.): "Grinling Gibbons"
  7. ↑ http://www.canonsparkestate.com/history

References

  • St Lawrence Little Stanmore
  • Howard Colvin, 1995 (3rd ed.). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1660-1840. (Yale University Press): "John James"
  • James Thorne, 1876. Handbook to The Environs of London. (reprinted 1983 Godfrey Cave Associates)

External links

  • Friends of Canons Park
  • Canons Park Estate
  • Walking tour of Canons Drive and Canons Park from May 2024
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  • Belmont
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  • Greenhill
  • Harrow
  • Harrow on the Hill
  • Harrow Weald
  • Hatch End
  • Headstone
  • Kenton
  • Little Stanmore
  • North Harrow
  • Pinner and Pinner Green
  • Rayners Lane
  • Roxeth
  • South Harrow
  • Stanmore
  • Wealdstone
  • West Harrow
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  • Burnt Oak
  • Queensbury
  • Sudbury
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Attractions
  • Bentley Priory
    • Museum
  • Earlsmead Stadium
  • Harrow Arts Centre
  • Harrow School
  • Harrow Skate Park
  • Headstone Manor
    • Museum
  • Heath Robinson Museum
  • St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill
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  • Bentley Priory Nature Reserve
  • Canons Park
  • Grim's Ditch
  • Harrow Weald Common
  • Stanmore Common
  • Stanmore Country Park
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  • Harrow East
  • Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
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