CHAPTER 32 - VAUXHALL WALK
On the 1745 edition of Rocque's map Vauxhall Walk (or Lowner's
Lane) is shown as a lane with hedges and fields on either side leading from
Lambeth Butts (Black Prince Road) to Vauxhall Gardens. In 1768 the
Duchy of Cornwall granted a building lease of ground on the west side
of the road to William Pace and 28 houses were erected there; (ref. 35) of these
only 8 survive.
Architectural Description
Nos. 28–42 (Plate 120b) form a group of terrace houses built in
stock brick with red brick arches above the flush-framed windows. Some of
the houses have a brick band at first floor level and the fronts (excepting No.
42 which has eaves) are parapeted with plain copings. Over the entrance to
No. 28 is a stone tablet incised—
“Vauxhall Walk”
1769
The doorcases of Nos. 28–34 have narrow panelled wood surrounds
and consoles supporting poorly detailed pediments. Nos. 36 and 38 have
doorways with wood architrave surrounds, and shaped consoles carrying the
pediments; the consoles have flat clockface pendants. The doorway to No.
40 has wing lights surmounted by a pediment; it is masked by a wood trellis
porch.
Wesleyan Chapel and Schools
The Chapel, which stands back from the road, is built in yellow
stock brick in Gothic style with lancet windows. The approach is flanked by
the Boys' and Girls' Schools of ragstone. Tablets in the gables state that the
Chapel and Boys' and Girls' Schools were built respectively in 1841, 1849
and 1852.
Figure 52:
Nos. 38–28 Vauxhall Walk, 1950. Measured drawing by A. R. Hansen
References
| 35. |
Duchy of Cornwall Office, Hodskinson
and Middleton's Survey of Kennington,
1785. |