Cartwright Gardens is a crescent shaped park and street located in Bloomsbury, London.
The gardens were originally built between 1809 and 1811 as part of the Skinners' Company Estate and were known as Burton Crescent after the developer James Burton.[1] The development attracted many professional and middle-class occupants although the character of the area changed towards the end of the 19th century with an increasing number of lodging houses occupying the buildings.[2]
Burton Crescent was renamed Cartwright Gardens in 1908 after the political reformer and local resident John Cartwright.[2] A bronze statue by George Clarke was added to the garden in 1831 which is set on a granite plinth that has details of Cartwright's works as a reformer. The garden is enclosed by iron railings, with mature plane trees, laid out with grass and circular walks. Unusually the gardens also have several tennis courts available for residents of the surrounding buildings and hotels.[3]
The crescent is composed of several hotels set in their original Georgian buildings. The east side of the gardens was gradually demolished during the first half of the 20th century. Canterbury Hall, a block of flats built in an Art Deco style, was built here in the 1930s. It later became an intercollegiate halls of residence for the University of London. It was joined by two further halls of residence for the University of London: Commonwealth Hall in the 1950s and Hughes Parry Hall in 1969.[4] These buildings were replaced by the Garden Halls in 2014–2016, although the tower block section of Hughes Parry Hall still stands.[5]
27-43 and 46-63 are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England.[6][7]
^http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=CAM018 Archived 14 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine London Gardens Online
^"Bloomsbury Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy" (PDF). Camden Council. April 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
^"Investing in new student accommodation | GSA".
^Historic England. "National Westminster Bank hall of residence (27-43), Jenkins Hotel (44 and 45) and railings (1244094)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^Historic England. "Numbers 46-63 and attached railings (1244103)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
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