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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A Review of the most recent and projected Improvements in and about the Metropolis, with observations on tlie Ancient and Modern state of Architecture in England. In order to point out the improvements which have grown with the growth, and strengthened with the strength of this great. city, it may only be necessary to refer to Mr. Lysons, who has furnished us with a minute account of the progress of the new buildings, particularly in the parish of Marybone. Marybone was once a small village, nearly a mile from any part of the metropolis. In 1717, or the next year, the ground was first laid out for Cavendish-Square, the circle in the centre inclosed and surrounded with a parapet wall and palisades. The Duke of Chandos, then Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Harcourt, and Lord Bingley were among the first that took ground to build here, and the rest was let to builders, who, though checked by the failure of the South Sea scheme, were induced to go on by the proposal for building a chapel and a market: Mr. Gibbs furnished the design, and they were both finished in 1724. The row of houses on the north side of Tybourn Road was completed in 1729, and it was then called Oxford-Street. Soon after, the ground was laid out for a number of good streets, which have increased on the north and the west ofOxford-Street, to Paddington and Pancras on one side, and to Edgware-Road on the other. To all the attractions of external splendour, it is not too much to say that every internal convenience has been added. Turning towards Somers Town, we come to an entirely new range and mass of buildings, called Judd-Street, Tunbridge-Place, andc. Here is a new Chapel for Cal- vinistic Dissenters; and the whole neighbourhood of Tottenham Court Road, and from thence to the Regent's Park and Paddington, presen...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217304061
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217304060
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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