Gordon Square Garden
Gordon Square Garden is one of the smaller public green spaces in the British capital, London . It is part of the English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation . It is located in the former Bloomsbury district just one block southwest of the equally large Tavistock Square Garden .
This park area is bordered by the four blocks of Gordon Street in the west, Ensleigh Place in the north and Gorden Square in the east and south. The green area continues south of the street with the Woburn Square Garden , which is about half the size . Compared to the southwest corner of the park which is Anglican , the Church of England is part of Christ the King Church .
At the time of its creation in the second half of the 19th century, the writer Henry James described the region around Gordon Square as "antiquated and unfashionable". A large number of writers and other artists lived here, such as Lytton and James Strachey , George Bernard Shaw , Leonard Sidney Woolf , Clive Bell , Roger Fry , but also scientists such as Maynard Keynes . They were all part of the Bloomsbury Group , which existed from 1905 until World War II .
Originally, like most other parks in London, the park was private and only accessible to residents of the houses around it. Today it is owned by the neighboring University of London , which has a number of facilities mainly north of the park. On Gordon Street is the Dr Williams's Library (house number: 14), named after the theologian Daniel Williams (1643–1716) and opened in 1729, as well as the Archaeological Institute (house number: 31–34).
Noteworthy are the cast-iron lids that are embedded in the asphalt in front of the houses and that simplified the delivery of coal. These filler necks, which can be seen mainly around the park, are, like the park itself and many of the houses around it, under national monument protection.
The park is fenced and closed at night. In 2005 it was refurnished and provided with a new fence that is very similar to the original fence. A broad strip of shrubbery forms the end of the fence, while inside wide gravel paths surround lawns with solitary trees. There is a kiosk on the south side. There are a few works of art on display, for example a monument in honor of the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore . Ball games, dogs and open fires are prohibited in the park; Park benches and waste bins are part of the park's equipment.
Gordon Square Garden with Thakur bust. Gordon Street in the background with Christ the King Church.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board in the park
- ^ Street Furniture Under Your Feet , Greater London Industrial Archeology Society , Newsletter June 2002
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '27.1 " N , 0 ° 7' 51.1" W.