Proposed Road through KENSINGTON GARDENS. Hyde Park. PENNETHORNE, 1855 old map
'Proposed Public Road through Kensington Gardens referred to by James Pennethorne Esq in his evidence of 28th June 1855'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: James Pennethorne Esq. Sir James Pennethorne (4 June 1801 – 1 September 1871) was a 19th-century English architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London. As principal assistant to John Nash he directed the West Strand and King William Street improvements, completing the Park Village East and Park Village West in Regent's Park after Nash's death. He was responsible for laying out Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets, Battersea Park, and prepared plans and estimates for a proposed "Albert Park" at Islington, which was never carried out. In 1853 he drew up several different ambitious plans for the laying out of the estate owned by the Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition at South Kensington, one of which included a relocated National Gallery. He was one of the architects invited, in 1862, to submit designs for a memorial to Prince Albert, but his suggestion for a monument in the form of a Classical mausoleum was rejected in favour of George Gilbert Scott's Gothic construction. Provenance: "Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Communications; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix", order by The House of Commons, to be printed, 23 July 1855, Henry Hansard. Type: Antique map with original colour, prepared for consideration by the British Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communication. Mr Pennethorne proposed with this map a public road from Kensington Gore running up through Kensington Gardens via the west side of the Serpentine to what is now the Bayswater Road (marked on the map as the Uxbridge Road). This road was never built, presumably because the earlier West Carriage Drive already fulfils the function of linking the two sides of the park via the Serpentine Bridge - although it does not appear to have been a publi
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