Upton House was a building in
West Ham
West Ham is an area in East London, located east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham.
The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancien ...
, Essex (now the
London
London is the capital and 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 down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
Borough of
Newham
The London Borough of Newham is a London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It covers an area previously administered by the Essex county boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, authorities that were both abolished by the s ...
) on what is now the corner of Lancaster Road and Upton Lane In 1827 it was the birthplace of the surgeon
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of s ...
. In 1893 a temporary church for
St Peter's Church, Upton Cross was set up in its gardens, with the house forming the vicarage
'West Ham: Domestic buildings', in ''A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6'', ed. W R Powell (London, 1973), pp. 50-57
/ref> - the permanent church was later built in the gardens. The vicarage was demolished in 1967-1968 and its site is now occupied by Joseph Lister Court.
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Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Newham
British country houses destroyed in the 20th century
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