Anglesea Park - Squares and Gardens

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Entry posted by GingerBlokey · October 31, 2013

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2 Anglesea Park - Squares and Gardens

Anglesea Park is a neighborhood of Woolham located just east of the city centre. Originally laid out in the 1830s on land owned by the Duke of Shannon the houses here are moslty elegant, Georgian terraces centred around a number of squares.

2.1 Holbourne Square

Here we see the first of the squares to be built, Holbourne Square actually located in Elgin Park (it's Elgin Park station we can see), the neighborhoods run into each other and the names are often used interchangeably as both share the same station. The statue in the square is of Isaac Watts the hymnwriter, theologian and composer who was born in a farmhouse nearby in 1674.

2.2 Tavistock Square

The most in-tact of the squares is Tavistock with its complete rows of late-Georgian townhouses and shady, wooded square complete with drinking fountains and an oak tree which is believed to date from 1715, around the same time as the Nassau rebellion in Wessex. The church is that of St Michael, a Victorian addition designed by Charles Barry and built on the site of Anglesea House, an Elizabethan manor house which burned down in 1874.

2.3 Huxley Square

Something more of an architectural mish-mash we come to Huxley Square. Building here didn't begin until 1841 and is a mix of townhouses built to the original Georgian plans and newer, more fashionable Victorian villas. In 1943 an incendiary bomb was dropped in the top-left corner and the houses here were rebuilt in the 1950s. The office block in the bottom-right is the headquarters of Parish Wells solicitors and was constructed on another bombsite in 2004 on what had been, since the war, a car park.

2.4 Shannon Street

Forming part of the inner ring-road is Shannon Street, the location of the majority shops and amenities in Anglesea Park. From left-right; Wattisham House (HQ of Denham Feeds, 2005), St Joseph's RC Church (1882), St Joseph's Vicarage (1882), 12 Shannon St (HSBC bank, 1934), Anglesea Park Police Station (1902).