York Terrace

York Terrace overlooks the south side of Regent's Park in Marylebone, City of Westminster, London, England. York Terrace West is a grade I listed building.[1] York Terrace East contains Grade II listed buildings.[2][3][4] 1-18 York Terrace East is listed Grade I.[5]

York Terrace West, NW1, in April 2015

History

It consists of two separate Regency style terraced buildings, York Terrace East and York Terrace West, which are joined by York Gate (built 1813) which frames St Marylebone Parish Church. York Terrace is one of the park's principal buildings.[6]

As with Cornwall Terrace and Clarence Terrace, York Terrace was constructed by the company of James Burton,[7] to a design by John Nash[8] and Decimus Burton.[9]

There are two blue plaques on York Terrace East, at on the Doric Villa at Nos. 19 and 20, for the psychoanalyst Ernest Jones,[10] and actor-manager Sir Charles Wyndham respectively.[11][12]

References
  1. Historic England. "7, York Gate NW1, 1-33, York Terrace West NW1, 1-33, Regent's Park NW1, 1-33, Outer Circle NW1 (1066047)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. Historic England. "21 and 22, York Terrace East NW1, 21 AND 22, Regent's Park NW1, 21 and 22, Outer Circle NW1 (1066045)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. Historic England. "23, York Terrace East NW1, 23, Regent's Park NW1, 23, Outer Circle NW1 (1075776)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. Historic England. "42-48, York Terrace East NW1, 42-48, Regent's Park NW1, 42-48, Outer Circle NW1 (1357400)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. Historic England. "1-18, York Terrace East NW1 (1066044)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  6. Elmes, James (1831). A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs: Containing Descriptive and Critical Accounts of All the Public and Private Buildings, Offices, Docks, Squares, Streets, Lanes, Wards, Liberties, Charitable, Scholastic and Other Establishments, with Lists of Their Officers, Patrons, Incumbents of Livings, &c. &c. &c. in the British Metropolis (Public domain ed.). Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot. pp. 352, 360–. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  7. "James Burton [Haliburton]", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".
  8. Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1993). The London Encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: PaperMac. p. 1004. ISBN 0333576888. OCLC 28963301.
  9. Entry for Burton, Decimus: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  10. "Dr Ernest Jones | Psychoanalyst | Blue Plaques". English Heritage. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  11. "Charles Wyndham | Actor | Blue Plaques". English Heritage. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  12. Historic England. "Doric Villa (1357399)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd's Metropolitan Improvements: Or, London in the Nineteenth Century, Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists from Original Drawings, Taken from the Objects Themselves Expressly for this Work (1827)

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