Lancaster Gate

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Lancaster Gate

Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater

Bayswater

Bayswater is an area of west London in the City of Westminster. It is a built-up district located 3 miles west north-west of Charing Cross and borders the north of Hyde Park, London over Kensington Gardens....
district of west central London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, immediately to the north of Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens

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Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater

Bayswater

London

Kensington Gardens

See also Kensington Gardens, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, AustraliaKensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, is one of the Royal Parks of London, lying immediately to the west of Hyde Park, London....
. It consists of two long terraces of houses overlooking the park, with a wide gap between them opening onto a square containing a church. Further terraces back onto the pair overlooking the park and loop around the square. The terraces are stucco

Stucco

Stucco or render is a material made of an Construction aggregate, a binder , and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid....
ed and are in an eclectic classical style featuring English Baroque

English Baroque

English Baroque is a casual term sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London and the Treaty of Utrecht ....
details and French touches. The church, known as Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, was an asymmetrical gothic composition with a needle spire. The architects were F. & H. Francis. Only the tower and spire survive, the rest of the building having been replaced by a housing scheme called Spire House in 1983.

Lancaster Gate stands alongside Hyde Park Gardens

Hyde Park Gardens

Hyde Park Gardens consists of two roads running adjacent to the North Western corner of Hyde Park, London, London. Number 1 Hyde Park Gardens runs up to Number 23 with a large private communal garden and then the road separates to allow access to The Ring and into Hyde Park, London and the neighbouring Kensington Gardens....
as one of the two grandest of the 19th-century housing schemes lining the northern side of Hyde Park

Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine ....
and Kensington Gardens. The development was planned in 1856-57 and construction took at least 10 years. The terraces overlooking the park were designed by Sancton Wood and those around the square by John Johnson. The exteriors are largely complete, with just a couple of 20th-century infills, but many of the interiors have been reconstructed behind the facades. Many of the properties are still in residential use and command very high prices. Others are used as embassies, office

Office

An office is generally a room or other area in which people employment, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty....
s, or hotel

Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
s. For many years, the headquarters of The Football Association

The Football Association

The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependency of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man....
were located in Lancaster Gate and the term was often used to refer to the organisation, but it has now relocated to Soho Square

Soho Square

Soho Square is a square in Soho, London, England, with a park and garden area at its centre that dates back to 1681. It was originally called King Square after Charles II of England, whose statue stands in the square....
.

The name Lancaster Gate also refers to a nearby gate of Kensington Gardens.

Lancaster Gate

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