Holford House
The Case of the Disappearing Villa Holford House was the last villa to be built in the Regent’s Park, also the largest, and most expensive. It stood for 116 years on the high ground directly South of Macclesfield Bridge but has vanished without trace. The owner was wine merchant James Holford (1788-1854). He […]
Sculptures that no longer existing or never built
The Swan Fountain Avenue Gardens The Swan fountain was first placed in Regent’s Park in 1863 in the Northern part of the Broadwalk but was moved to the Southern end to make way for the drinking fountain now known as the Readymoney fountain. The Swan fountain was designed by R. Westmacott the younger and executed […]
Colosseum – a Regent’s Park building that was killed by technological change.
This is the Regent’s Park Colosseum. Designed by Decimus Burton for a site on the Eastern edge of the park, and completed in 1827, it stood for 48 years. It was not a small building: the diameter of the rotunda is equivalent to the length of St Marylebone Parish Church, and its dome rose as […]
The Ornamental Well And Jelling Stone At The Danish Church
In St Katharine’s precinct off the Outer Circle is the Danish Church. In the centre of the courtyard, is an Ornamental Well, under which was the conduit supplying water when St Katharine’s was a hospital. A replica of a Medieval well head stands over it, which was erected in 1826 when the St. Katharine’s Order built a chapel in […]
