23-47 Grosvenor Gardens (geograph 4769282)

The Rifle Brigade Memorial, Grosvenor Gardens, Westminster

Grosvenor Gardens is the name given to two triangular parks in Belgravia,

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, faced on their western and eastern sides by streets of the same name. Both roads run roughly north to south from Hobart Place and Grosvenor Place to

Buckingham Palace Road Buckingham Palace Road is a street that runs through Victoria, London, from the south side of Buckingham Palace towards Chelsea, forming the A3214 road. It is dominated by Victoria Station. History In the 18th century, the road was known as ...

, and is entirely the A3215. Notable buildings include the Grade II-listed Grosvenor Gardens House at Nos. 23–47, built in about 1868 by the architect Thomas Cundy III in the

French Renaissance The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define th ...

style. The

Rifle Brigade War Memorial The Rifle Brigade War Memorial in London commemorates the service of the Rifle Brigade in the First and Second World Wars. It stands at the junction of Grosvenor Gardens and Hobart Place near Victoria Station in the City of Westminster, on lan ...

commemorates the service of the Rifle Brigade in the First and Second World Wars. It stands at the junction of Grosvenor Gardens and Hobart Place, on land donated by the 2nd Duke of Westminster. The shell-covered huts in the southern garden were part of a redesign of the park by Jean Moreux, architect-in-chief of the National Monuments and Palaces of France, in 1952. The ''fabrique'' style buildings are covered with shells from England and France, and are used to store gardening equipment. The northern garden contains the sculpture '' Lioness and Lesser Kudu'' by Jonathan Kenworthy, installed in 2000.

Notable residents

* William Henry Blackmore (1827–1878), killed himself in his study at

Belgrave Mansions Grosvenor Gardens House is a Grade II-listed mansion block at 23–47 Grosvenor Gardens, London, Grosvenor Gardens, Belgravia, London. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother may have been born there in 1900. David Niven was born there in 1910, and Will ...

, Grosvenor Gardens * Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans (1835–1911), lived at No. 13 * John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (1890–1922), born and lived at No. 13 * Thomas Forbes (1900–1988), grew up at No. 15 * Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), lived at No. 4, commemorated with a blue plaque * F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), lived at No. 32, commemorated with a blue plaque

References

* Belgravia Streets in the City of Westminster {{London-road-stub