Regency Place (Westminster)
Brief Description
Regency Place at the junction of Horseferry Road and Regency Street was formed in the early C19th on what was the north-east corner of Tothill Field, now entirely rebuilt. The site is a dense but effective shrubbery below advertising hoardings to the south-west beside the Coroner's Court by CRW Wheeler of 1893. On the corner opposite is the RC Church of the Sacred Heart, a 1930s building, with a large front garden enclosed by a chain-link fence. The garden is enthusiastically tended and contains a lawn, shrubs and a chequer-board of cement slabs with masses of daffodils growing up through the interstices. In the centre of the junction is a curiosity, an iron hexagonal urinal with a pitched roof, very like a Parisian `pissoir', much resorted to by taxi drivers.
Practical Information
- Site location:
- Regency Street/Horseferry Road
- Postcode:
- SW1
- What 3 Words:
- noon.noon.folds
- Type of site:
- Public Gardens
- Borough:
- Westminster
- Open to public?
- Yes
- Opening times:
- check public access?
- Special conditions:
- Facilities:
- Events:
- Public transport:
- Tube: Pimlico (Victoria)
- Research updated:
- 01/11/2007
- Last minor changes:
- 14/07/2022
Please check with the site owner or manager for latest news.
Full Site Description
Pending further research
Sources consulted:
Further Information (Planning and Conservation)
- Grid ref:
- TQ297789 (529750,178950)
- Size in hectares:
- Site ownership:
- WCC? Coroner's Court?
- Site management:
- Not on Parks list - who manages?
- Date(s):
- early C19th
- Designer(s):
- Listed structures:
- LBII: Coroner's Court
- On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens:
No- Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965:
No- Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931:
No
Local Authority Data
The information below is taken from the relevant Local Authority's planning legislation, which was correct at the time of research but may have been amended in the interim. Please check with the Local Authority for latest planning information.
- On Local List:
- No
- In Conservation Area:
- Yes
- Conservation Area name:
- Partly in Medway Street
- Tree Preservation Order:
- No
- Nature Conservation Area:
- No
- Green Belt:
- No
- Metropolitan Open Land:
- No
- Special Policy Area:
- No
- Other LA designation:
- None
Photos
Regency Place - Photo: Colin Wing
Date taken: 27/05/21 09:09
1995 Click a photo to enlarge.
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