Hereford Square
Hereford Square is a garden square in South Kensington, London SW7. It lies to the west of Gloucester Road, which forms the east side of the square. Wetherby Place is the western continuation, running off the north-west corner of the square.
History
Hereford Square was built by the architect Thomas Holmes from 1845 to 1850.[1]
Notable buildings and residents
- George Crichton Wells (1914-1999), dermatologist[2]
- George Borrow (1803-1881), lived at no 22
- Frederick William Hulme (1816-1884), landscape painter and illustrator, lived at no 4, according to the 1851 census[3]
Fictional references
The central protagonist in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head lives in Hereford Square.
References
- ^ "Hereford Square SW7". www.opensquares.org. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "Munks Roll Details for George Crichton Wells". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "Hereford Square area: The Day estate - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
External links
Media related to Hereford Square at Wikimedia Commons
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