Looking up Hinde Street towards Manchester Square - geograph

Hinde Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the

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, London, that contains the

Hinde Street Methodist Church Hinde Street Methodist Church in Hinde Street, Marylebone, London, is Grade II listed with Historic England. It was built 1807-10 and rebuilt in the 1880s. History ;The First Chapel of 1810 Methodists had a presence in London's West End from the ...

and was home to the novelist Rose Macaulay until her death.

Location

Hinde Street runs from Manchester Square in the west to the junction of Marylebone Lane and

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in the east.

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joins it mid way on the north side and continues as Mandeville Place on the south side.

History

The street was built from 1777 by Samuel Adams and named after Jacob Hinde who was the son-in-law of the ground landlord Thomas Thayer.

Buildings

The street is home to a number of notable buildings. The Hinde Street Methodist Church, a grade II listed building with Historic England. It was built 1807–10, and rebuilt in the 1880s.Hinde Street Methodist Church.
Methodist Heritage. Retrieved 25 April 2015. Number 2 on the south side is a Portman Estate development terraced town house built around 1790. The building is grade II listed and occupied on the ground floor by Bishop Instruments and Bows. Numbers 11 and 12 on the north side between Manchester Square and Thayer Street are also Portman Estate terraced town houses that have shops on the ground floor and flats above. Both are grade II listed.

Notable inhabitants

Rose Macaulay blue plaque, Hinde Street, London

*The novelist Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) lived at Hinde House on the north side from 1941 until her death. *The philosopher Herbert Spencer lodged at number 6 in 1862–63.Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) ''Guide to Literary London''. London:

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, p. 285. *

Oscar Beringer Oscar Beringer (14 July 1844 – 21 February 1922) was an English pianist and teacher of German descent. He was born in Furtwangen in the Black Forest, but by 1849 he had moved to London when his father became a political refugee. Due to impo ...

's Academy for the Higher Development of Pianoforte Playing was at 12 Hinde Street in 1883. * In the mid-1880s, writer

Edward Healy Thompson Edward Healy Thompson (1813, Oakham, Rutland - 21 May 1891, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) was an English Roman Catholic writer. Life Thompson was the son of Robert and Mary Costall Thompson. His father was a tax surveyor successively at Oakham, Ba ...

lived on Hinde Street, near Manchester Square.Meynell, Everard. ''The Life of Francis Thompson'', Burnes & Oates, 1916, p. 68
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