Hoxton Square
Hoxton Square is a leafy garden square (Engl. Garden square ) in Hoxton in the borough of Hackney of London . The square was laid out in 1683 and is one of the oldest garden squares in all of London. After long industry settled at the site, it became the heart of the local art and media scene in the 1990s. The largely Victorian buildings around the square have been home to various bars, restaurants and clubs since 2000 .
history
The site was laid out by Samuel Blewitt and Robert Hackshaw, who leased the site from the Austen family in 1683.
Hoxton Square has long been a popular place to live for the merchant class and for those with dissenting views. The Sandemanian Samuel Pike, who lived here, offered theological instruction from 1750. The liberal-noconformist "Hoxton Square Academy", which closed in 1785, was also located here. Until 2012, the “ White Cube ” art gallery was located here.
Known residents
The Christian theologian John Thomas, founder of the Christadelphian movement , was born in 1805 in Hoxton Square.
Peter Durand , who filed the first English patent for food cans, lived here in 1810 .
One of the residents of Hoxton Square of the 18th century, who is active in his younger years in the slave trade abolitionist and pastor John Newton , composed the popular hymn Amazing Grace .
The doctor James Parkinson (1755-1824), who wrote An Essay on the Shaking Palsy and thus described Parkinson's disease for the first time , had a practice in building 1 Hoxton Square, where today a plaque commemorates his work.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Booth walks. In: bonsonhistory.co.uk. Retrieved July 2, 2016 (English, describes impressions of Charles Booth on tours of Hoxton & Shoreditch 1898).
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '39.7 " N , 0 ° 4' 52.5" W.