The Octagon - Fulham Road, London, UK
N 51° 28.900 W 000° 11.238
30U E 695297 N 5707142
This building, to the south east side of Fulham Road, was constructed in the early 1840s as a part of an early teacher training college.
Waymark Code: WMF1W6
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/08/2012
Views: 2
The Fresh Fields Blog (visit
link) tells us:
"...Walk to the end of the path to get back to the
Fulham Road. Turn left and continue over Stamford Bridge until Billing
Road. Opposite is an octagonal building. This was originally part of an
early teacher training college set up in 1841 by The National Society for the
Education of the Poor in the Principle of the Established Church - not what you
might call a snappy title. There is a pleasant pathway which is a cut-through to
the Kings Road. It is worth wandering through this little park to see the late
seventeenth-century Stanley House in whose grounds the college was built -
you also get a good view of the handsome blocks of the original school,
now apartments..."
This supplemented by the At Home in Chelsea website (visit link) that
adds:
"...Chelsea College
Originally the College of St. Mark and St. John,
established in 1840 by the National Society for the Education of the Poor as one
of the first teacher training colleges.
Byzantine in style by Edward Blore and built in 1842-47.
The octagon building and neo-Norman chapel on the Fulham Road were built in
1843. Two neo Georgian blocks on the Kings Road were added in 1910 &
1923.
The entire complex is now converted into flats
etc..."