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Chapel Street |
Chapel Street is on land given to [[Rugby School]] in 1567 by [[Lawrence Sherriff]], the school's founder. It forms part of the [[Rugby Estate]] which was laid out for development in the 1680s and let to [[Sir William Milman]] after whom nearby Millman Street is named. It began to be built around 1700 and was completed around 1721. The street was named after the [[Episcopal Chapel of St John]], a Church of England chapel on the corner with Millman Street which was already in existence when Chapel Street began to be developed. The chapel was later demolished and Rugby Chambers was built on the site in 1867.<ref name=ucl>[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/chapel_street.htm Rugby Estate: Rugby Street.] UCL Bloomsbury Project. Retrieved 14 July 2020.</ref> |
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The Chapel Street Hall, the first [[Positivism|positivist]] centre in Britain, was opened in 1870.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=V6HROvLpv0UC&pg=PA95</ref> |
The Chapel Street Hall, the first [[Positivism|positivist]] centre in Britain, was opened in 1870.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=V6HROvLpv0UC&pg=PA95</ref> |
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.jpg) The Rugby Tavern | |
 Vicinity of Rugby Street (centre) | |
| Former name(s) | Chapel Street |
|---|---|
| Area | Bloomsbury, London |
| Postal code | WC1 |
| Coordinates | 51°31′18″N 0°07′02″W / 51.52179°N 0.11717°W |
| Construction | |
| Construction start | c.1700 |
| Completion | c.1721 |
| Other | |
| Known for | Site of first positivist centre in Britain |
Rugby Street, formerly known as Chapel Street, runs between Lamb's Conduit Street in the west and the junction of Great James Street and Millman Street in the east, in the Bloomsbury district of the London Borough of Camden.
History
Chapel Street is on land given to Rugby School in 1567 by Lawrence Sherriff, the school's founder. It forms part of the Rugby Estate which was laid out for development in the 1680s and let to Sir William Milman after whom nearby Millman Street is named. It began to be built around 1700 and was completed around 1721. The street was named after the Episcopal Chapel of St John, a Church of England chapel on the corner with Millman Street which was already in existence when Chapel Street began to be developed. The chapel was later demolished and Rugby Chambers was built on the site in 1867.[1]
The Chapel Street Hall, the first positivist centre in Britain, was opened in 1870.[2]
The street was renamed Rugby Street in 1936 or 1937.[1]
Buildings
The street contains a number of listed buildings such as the grade II listed The Rugby Tavern on the corner with Great James Street[3] which was created in the mid-nineteenth century by the joining of two houses, one from each street.[1] Numbers 10 to 16 and 18 on the north side are also listed, as are numbers 7, 9, and 13 on the south side. Pevsner comments on the sensitive restoration of 10-16 by Rugby School in 1981 and the railings and carved doorcase of number 12.[4]
Former residents
- Writer of London-based detective stories Charles Kingston O'Mahony lived at 14 Rugby Chambers in the 1900s.[5]
- Poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath spent their wedding night in Rugby Street and Hughes subsequently wrote the poem "18 Rugby Street" about the occassion.[6][7]
The catacomb basement heaped with exhaust mufflers,
Assorted jagged shards of cars, shin-rippers,
On the way to the unlit and unlovely,
Lavatory beneath the street’s pavement[8]
References
- ^ a b c Rugby Estate: Rugby Street. UCL Bloomsbury Project. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=V6HROvLpv0UC&pg=PA95
- ^ Historic England. "Rugby Public House (1271397)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Bridget Cherry. (2002). The Buildings of England: London 4 North. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 313. ISBN 0300096534.
- ^ Charles Kingston O'Mahony England, London Electoral Registers, 1847-1913. Family Search. Retrieved 12 July 2020. (subscription required)
- ^ For rent: Scene of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s first night. Ella Jessel, Camden New Journal, 1 December 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ Sylvia Plath (2018). Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 – 1963. Faber & Faber. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-571-33922-8.
- ^ Erica Wagner (2002). "2. Beautiful Beautiful America". Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-393-29267-1.
External links
- http://18rugbystreet.co.uk/
- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Chapel-Street-Hall-later-known-as-the-Church-of-Humanity-c-1874-Courtesy-of-British_fig3_283175519
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