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Mansfield Street is a street in the
Mansfield Street is a street in the Marylebone
Marylebone (usually , also , ) is a district in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. Oxford Street, Europe's busiest shopping street, forms its southern boundary.
An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough, it me ...
district of central London.
It runs roughly north to south from New Cavendish Street
New Cavendish Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from Marylebone High Street in the west to Cleveland Street in the east. The street was built in 1775 and named after the Cavendish family, who were related to the ...
to Queen Anne Street. About halfway, there are t-junctions with Duchess Street, off to the east, and Mansfield Mews, off to the west.
5-13 and 16–22 are all grade II* listed. They were designed by Robert and James Adam, and built in 1770–75.
Notable people
No. 13 was the home of the architectJohn Loughborough Pearson
John Loughborough Pearson (5 July 1817 – 11 December 1897) was a British Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency ...
, and the home and office of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, from 1919 to his death in 1944.
No. 18 was the birthplace of the biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers in 1907 (as Rosalind Venetia Henley).
References
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