Kinnerton Street

Last updated

Kinnerton Street
Kinnerton Street, London SW1 - geograph.org.uk - 1734688.jpg
Kinnerton Street map (3).jpg
Area Belgravia
LocationCity of Westminster, London, England
Postal codeSW1
Coordinates 51°30′03″N0°09′24″W / 51.50076°N 0.15670°W / 51.50076; -0.15670
Construction
Completionc. early 1800s
Other
Known forSt George's Hospital medical school

Kinnerton Street is in the district of Belgravia in the City of Westminster, London, England. It had modest origins as a service street for wealthy areas of the Grosvenor Estate and was originally occupied by the animals, servants, shopkeepers and tradesmen who served their richer neighbours. The small side streets on its west side end at the Ranelagh Sewer which was not covered over until 1844. The street was the site of a medical school where the dissecting was carried out for Gray's Anatomy. Later, the street was gentrified.

Contents

Location

The street runs between Duplex Ride in the north and Motcomb Street in the south. It is also joined on its east side to Wilton Place and on its west side by Studio Place, Kinnerton Place, Frederic Mews, and Capeners Close. [1]

History

Kinnerton Street was originally built as a service street for the Grosvenor Estate's Wilton Crescent and Wilton Street. It was named after Lower Kinnerton in Cheshire [2] associated with the Grosvenor family, [3] but swiftly became a slum. The small side streets on its west side end at the Ranelagh Sewer which was not enclosed until 1844. In the mid-nineteenth century its inhabitants were the animals, servants, shopkeepers, and tradesmen who served the wealthy streets adjacent to Kinnerton. It was only gentrified much later. [2] [4]

Buildings

The Wilton Arms, Kinnerton Street Wilton Arms, Kinnerton Street (geograph 4720540).jpg
The Wilton Arms, Kinnerton Street

In the mid-1830s Sir Benjamin Brodie provided the capital to purchase a building at the northern end of Kinnerton Street to be the new medical school for the nearby St George's Hospital. [4] Henry Gray probably began his studies of anatomy at Kinnerton Street and carried out the dissecting for Gray's Anatomy there. [4] From 1836, St George's, then based nearby at Hyde Park Corner rented buildings for its School of Anatomy and Medicine. [5] In 1868, the School moved to the main hospital buildings and formally became part of the St. George's Hospital Medical School. [5]

The French restaurant Pétrus has been at number one since March 2010. [6]

The Wilton Arms at no. 10 is a Grade II listed public house, built in 1825–26. [7] The lease is owned by Inda Pubs, and it reopened in September 2021. [8]

Former residents

From 1940, Gerald Hamilton, who had served prison sentences for bankruptcy, theft, gross indecency and being a threat to national security, and his jazzband leader lover Ken "Snakehips" Johnson lived at 91 Kinnerton Street. [9]

In the mid-1970s, the journalist and author Christopher Robbins lived with the film director Brian Desmond Hurst in his "grandly shabby Georgian house" in the street. [10]

No. 44 was owned by Ghislaine Maxwell, and is where Prince Andrew is alleged to have spent the night with Virginia Roberts Giuffre. [11] [12]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mayfair</span> Area of central London, England

Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the eastern edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It is one of the most expensive districts in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pimlico</span> Human settlement in England

Pimlico is an area of Central London in the City of Westminster, built as a southern extension to neighbouring Belgravia. It is known for its garden squares and distinctive Regency architecture. Pimlico is demarcated to the north by Victoria Station, by the River Thames to the south, Vauxhall Bridge Road to the east and the former Grosvenor Canal to the west. At its heart is a grid of residential streets laid down by the planner Thomas Cubitt, beginning in 1825 and now protected as the Pimlico Conservation Area. The most prestigious are those on garden squares, with buildings decreasing in grandeur away from St George's Square, Warwick Square, Eccleston Square and the main thoroughfares of Belgrave Road and St. George's Drive. Additions have included the pre–World War II Dolphin Square and the Churchill Gardens and Lillington and Longmoore Gardens estates, now conservation areas in their own right. The area has over 350 Grade II listed buildings and several Grade II* listed churches. At the western edge of Pimlico, on the borders of Chelsea, Pimlico Road has become known in recent years for its interiors and design stores.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Belgravia</span> District in Greater London, England

Belgravia is a district in Central London, covering parts of the areas of the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metropolitan Borough of Westminster</span>

The Metropolitan Borough of Westminster was a metropolitan borough in the County of London, England, from 1900 to 1965.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">River Westbourne</span> River in London, England

The Westbourne or Kilburn is a culverted small River Thames tributary in London, rising in Hampstead and Brondesbury Park and which as a drain unites and flows southward through Kilburn and Bayswater to skirt underneath the east of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake then through central Chelsea under Sloane Square. It passes centrally under the south side of Royal Hospital Chelsea's Ranelagh Gardens before discharging into Inner London's old-fashioned, but grandiose combined sewer system, with exceptional discharges into the Inner London Tideway. Since the latter 19th century, the population of its catchment has risen further but to reduce the toll it places on the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works and related bills its narrow basin has been assisted by private soakaways, and public surface water drains. Its depression has been replaced with and adopted as a reliable route for a gravity combined sewer. The formation of the Serpentine relied on the water, a lake with a long, ornate footbridge and various activities associated, which today uses little-polluted water from a great depth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grosvenor Square</span> Square in the Mayfair district of London, England

Grosvenor Square is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the duke's surname "Grosvenor". It was developed for fashionable residences in the 18th century. In the 20th it had an American and Canadian diplomatic presence, and currently is mixed use, commercial.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Gray</span> British anatomist (1827–1861)

Henry Gray was a British anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster</span> British politician and noble

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, was the son of the 1st Earl Grosvenor, whom he succeeded in 1802 as 2nd Earl Grosvenor. He was created Marquess of Westminster in 1831. He was an English Member of Parliament (MP) and an ancestor of the modern-day Dukes of Westminster. Grosvenor continued to develop the family's London estates, he rebuilt their country house, Eaton Hall in Cheshire where he also restored the gardens, and built a new London home, Grosvenor House. He maintained and extended the family interests in the acquisition of works of art, and in horse racing and breeding racehorses.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chancery Lane</span> London street in the ward of Farringdon Without

Chancery Lane is a one-way street situated in the ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London. It has formed the western boundary of the City since 1994, having previously been divided between the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden. The route originated as a 'new lane' created by the Knights Templar from their original 'old Temple' on the site of the present Southampton Buildings on Holborn, in order to access to their newly acquired property to the south of Fleet Street sometime before 1161.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wilton Crescent</span>

Wilton Crescent is a street in Belgravia, Central London, comprising a sweeping elegant terrace of Georgian houses and the private communal gardens that the semi-circle looks out upon. The houses were built in the early 19th century and are now Grade II listed buildings. The street is the northern projection of Belgravia and is often taken to fall into the category of London's garden squares.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ghislaine Maxwell</span> British sex trafficker and socialite (born 1961)

Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British former socialite and convicted sex offender. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In June 2022, she was sentenced in a New York court to twenty years' imprisonment.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dragon boundary mark</span> Type of sculpture marking boundaries of the City of London

The dragon boundary marks are cast iron statues of dragons on metal or stone plinths that mark the boundaries of the City of London. The dragons are painted silver, with details of their wings and tongue picked out in red. The dragon stands on its left rear leg, with the right rear leg lifted forward to support a shield, with the right foreleg raised and the left foreleg holding the top of the shield. The shield bears the City of London's coat of arms painted in red and white: the red cross of St George on a white background, with a red sword in the first quarter referring to the reputed beheading of Saint Paul. Saint George and Saint Paul are respectively the patron saints of England and of London. The dragon's stance is the equivalent of the rampant heraldic attitude of the supporters of the City's arms, which may allude to the legend of Saint George and the Dragon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">King Edward VII's Hospital</span> Hospital in Greater London , United Kingdom

King Edward VII's Hospital is a private hospital located on Beaumont Street in the Marylebone district of central London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pétrus (restaurant)</span> Restaurant in London, England

Pétrus is a restaurant in London, which serves modern French cuisine. It is located in Kinnerton Street, Belgravia and is part of Gordon Ramsay restaurants owned by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Ltd. It has held one Michelin star since 2011, and 3 AA Rosettes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eia</span> Former Medieval manor in Middlesex, England

Eia or Eye was an early Medieval manor in the parish of Westminster, Middlesex and is now a part of Central London. It was about one mile west of the Palace of Westminster/Whitehall, about 2 miles west-south-west of the walled City of London, and about half a mile north of the River Thames.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thayer Street, London</span>

Thayer Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London, that contains four listed buildings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mandeville Place, London</span>

Mandeville Place is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London, the buildings in which are notably more impressive than those to the immediate north and south.

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London districts of Pimlico and Victoria. The area has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are the generally accepted ones of: Vauxhall Bridge Road to the north-east, the river Thames to the south, the Victoria railway line, Buckingham Palace Road/Buckingham Gate/Grosvenor Gardens to the west and Lower Grosvenor Place/Bressenden Place to the north. Victoria is a vaguely defined area, but is generally used to refer to streets immediately around the station of that name.

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Belgravia. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of the area viz. South Carriage Drive to the north, Grosvenor Gardens/Place/Square to the east, Buckingham Palace Road/Victoria railway line to the south-east and Chelsea Bridge Road, Lower Sloane Street/Sloane Square/Sloane Street to the west.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Motcomb Street</span>

Motcomb Street is a street in the City of Westminster's Belgravia district in London. It is known for its luxury fashion shops, such as Christian Louboutin shoes, Stewart Parvin gowns, and the jeweller Carolina Bucci, and was the location of the original Pantechnicon department store.

References

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Kinnerton Street" in Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 466. ISBN   978-0-230-73878-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Bebbington, Gillian. (1972) London Street Names. London: B.T. Batsford. pp. 191–192. ISBN   0713401400
  4. 1 2 3 Richardson, Ruth (2009). The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame. Oxford University Press. pp. 32–34. ISBN   978-0-19-162338-7.
  5. 1 2 "Brief history during Snow era". www.ph.ucla.edu.
  6. ↑ Petrus. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "The Wilton Arms public house (1251180)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "Wilton Arms, London". whatpub.com. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  9. ↑ Stephen Bourne (3 August 2020). Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939–45. History Press. pp. 79–80. ISBN   978-0-7509-9583-2.
  10. ↑ "Christopher Robbins | The Empress of Ireland". Slightly Foxed. 1 June 2020.
  11. ↑ Ma, Alexandra. "We visited alleged Epstein 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell's upscale house in London's Belgravia, where the superrich live, and got a taste of her lifestyle before she disappeared". Business Insider.
  12. ↑ "Epstein's Drinkers & Drivers".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.