Cheyne Row is a residential street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from the crossroads with

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, where it becomes Glebe Place, leading down to a t-junction with Cheyne Walk which forms an embankment of the

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. It was named after

Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven (23 October 1625 – 30 June 1698) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698. Origins He was the son of Francis Cheyne of Chesham Bois in Buckingham ...

(c. 1624–1698) who purchased the manor of Chelsea in

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, then a rural village.

Notable buildings

16–34, including Carlyle's House at No 24, are grade II* listed, and built in 1708. 22-33 are grade II listed. The grade II listed Roman Catholic parish church,

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is on the corner of Cheyne Row and

Notable residents

No 24 was home to the historian

Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, ...

and is now known as Carlyle's House and is a

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property open to the public. It was later home to the actor and writer

Thea Holme Thea Holme (nee Johnston, 1904–1980) was a British actor and writer. Holme was born Thea Johnston in 1904. Her father was the architect Philip Mainwaring Johnston. She studied art at The Slade and then theatre at the Central School of Speech a ...

(1904–1980), who moved there when her husband became the house's curator. In 1833,

Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre ...

, a friend of Carlyle, moved next door. In 1780, the artist John Collett died at his home there. By 1921, the American historian

Hope Emily Allen Hope Emily Allen (1883–1960), was an American scholar of medieval history who is best known for her research on the 14th-century English mystic Richard Rolle and for her discovery of a manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe. Early life and ed ...

was living at 116 Cheyne Row with her friend, the scientist-artist

Marietta Pallis Marietta Pallis (1882–1963) was a Greek-Briton ecologist and botanical artist. She is noted for research in aquatic botany, especially the Norfolk Broads and the Danube Delta as well as her creation of devotional landscapes. Biography Pallis ...

References

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