Champion Lodge was a large house at Camberwell in London.
Champion Lodge was a large house at Camberwell in London.
Philip Champion de Crespigny (1704–1765), proctor of the Admiralty court, began leasing the house around 1741 and purchased it in 1755, renaming it Champion Lodge. [1] [2] The Prince of Wales (later to become George IV) visited the lodge in 1804 and Claude Champion de Crespigny (1734–1818), eldest son of Philip, the then owner of the house, was made a baronet in 1805. [2]
The lodge, which was originally surrounded by a 30-acre park, was demolished in 1841 while Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny was the 3rd Baronet. [2] It was roughly at the junction of where Love Walk meets Denmark Hill today. [3]
Camberwell was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in south London, England. Camberwell was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey, governed by an administrative vestry from 1674. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. The parish of Camberwell became a metropolitan borough in 1900, following the London Government Act 1899, with the parish vestry replaced by a borough council. In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area became part of the London Borough of Southwark in Greater London.
Camberwell Green is a hectare of common land in Camberwell, south London laid out as a formal park. Its south-west corner is the junction of Camberwell Road/Denmark Hill and Camberwell New Road/Camberwell Church Street. Its other edges share one point of motor vehicle access. Behind a library at the north-east of the Green is the former Camberwell Magistrate's Court, and at the north-west is a home for the elderly. To the south-west, and overlooking the Green, is a parade of shops including banks and restaurants. The Green is recorded in surveys and accounts of the manor of Camberwell and vestry of Southwark as common land, meaning owned by the lord of the manor but subject to grazing and other rights of local residents. It was bought by Camberwell Parish Vestry in the late 19th century to protect it from development. Camberwell Green is also the name of the London Borough of Southwark electoral ward around the Green.
Philip Mainwaring Johnstonfsafriba (1865–1936), also known as PM Johnston, was a British architect and architectural historian.
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Philip Champion de Crespigny, was proctor of the Admiralty court.