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The architecture of Bedford Park in Chiswick, West London, is characterised largely by Queen Anne Revival style, meaning an eclectic mixture of English and Flemish house styles from the 17th and 18th centuries, with elements of many other styles featuring in some of the buildings.
As well as domestic buildings, the Bedford Park estate has a group of public buildings, namely its church, St Michael and All Angels; a social club, now the London Buddhist Vihara; its inn, The Tabard, and next door its shop, the Bedford Park Stores; and its art school, now replaced by the Arts Educational Schools.
The garden suburb was created from 1875 over a period of some 20 years, its development by Jonathan Carr prompted by the arrival of the District Line at Turnham Green Station.
Major architects involved in the early period of the creation of the estate included Edward William Godwin, Richard Norman Shaw, Edward John May, Henry Wilson, and Maurice Bingham Adams; later, a modernist building was contributed by C.F.A. Voysey, and another by Fritz Ruhemann and Michael Dugdale.