Kensington Park Road

Horbury Chqpel, c. 1905, Kensington Park Road was laid out in the 1840s, close to where the main entrance to John Whyte’s Hippodrome Racecourse had been a decade earlier.
The chapel was built in 1848, in an early Nonconfromist Gothic Style, by John Tarring.

The growing congregation had formed the first chapel in the area at Hornton Street in 1793, on land leased to Zillizm Forsyth, the gardener at Kensington Place.

Our Lady of Sion Convent c. 1905. a jolly scene from the Convent’s country house.
The convent designed and built by A. Young and dating fron 1892, was the first building in Notting Hill to sell for more than 1 million pounds.

St Peter’s Church, Kensington Park Road, c. 1907.
 An imposing church helped to establish the standing of any new property development.
St Peter’s was built for Charles Blake, and was consecrated in 1857.
It was one of the last churches built in the Bictorian Classical style in London.
 The architect, Thomas Allom, also designed Stanely Gardens opposite.
He drew up plans so that exactly as the sun sets over the villas of Stanley Gardens, the sun’s rays light up the church’s golden façade.

A delivery from S. Phillips, who was a cheesemoneger at resident at no. 152, Notting Hill Gate, arrives by cart outside no. 70, Kensington Park Road. George Walker was the resident who would have been setteling the bill.