Ovington Square

Ovington Square is a garden square in central London's Knightsbridge district. It lies between Brompton Road to the north-west (reached via Ovington Gardens) and Walton Street to the south-east.^[1]

The freehold property on which the square is built was owned by Frederick, Baron von Zandt of Würzburg, Germany, and after his death was developed in 1844 by his widow, Elizabeth Standerwick, of Ovington House in Hampshire.^[1] The houses surrounding the green were built from 1844 to 1850 by W.W. Pocock.^[2]

The south side of the square, 1–35, and number 34 on the north side are grade II listed, as are 37–43 and 36–42 on the road into the square.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The green itself was secured soon after development, protected under the 1851 Garden Square Act and maintained under the Kensington Improvement Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. cxvi). Responsibility for the garden passed to trustees following a settlement made by Sir John Swinnerton Dyer in 1912.^[7]

• #10 was home to the London Buddhist Vihara from 1955 to 1964, when it moved to Heathfield Gardens, Chiswick.^[8][9]
• The six-storey apartment building #22–26 was built in 1957, and the architect was Walter Segal.^[10]Pevsner called it "a Morris Traveller parked among grander saloons".^[10] In the 1990s, the Twentieth Century Society recommended it for listed building status, but this was rejected.^[10]
• #10 Frederic Chapman (1823–1895), publisher, died at his home there^[11]
• #17 Birthplace of Vera Bate Lombardi (1883–1948), socialite^[12]
• #18 Sir Wilfrid Lawson, segundo baronet de Brayton (1829–1906), activista por la templanza y político radical, murió en su casa allí ^{[ 13 ].}
• El número 22 era la casa de Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, baronesa de Longueuil , prima de Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, la futura reina Isabel, la reina madre . ^{[ 14 ]}
• #27 Sede de las compañías Apple Corps y Harrisongs de los Beatles ^{[ 15 ]}
• #31 Mary Frances Ames (1860-1914) autora e ilustradora de libros infantiles. ^{[ 16 ] [ 17 ]}
• Arthur Grote (1814–1886), administrador colonial, murió en su casa allí ^{[ 18 ].}
• Jane Wilde vivió allí desde 1879, al igual que brevemente su hijo, Oscar Wilde ^{[ 19 ] [ 20 ].}

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