The Academy is at the heart of London, providing easy access to and from all parts of the city and beyond. The Academy’s buildings are alongside Regent’s Park, just across Marylebone Road from Marylebone Village.
The restaurants, bars and cafés in Marylebone Village offer perfect meeting points from coffee catch-ups to the important lunchtime or evening rendezvous.
Marylebone Farmers’ Market takes place on Sundays from 10am to 2pm. Fresh seasonal flowers, fruits and foods are the order of the day. Marylebone Village is also the perfect place to spend time exploring its unique collection of shops. Treats for the home, designer-wear fashions and presents for friends can all be found as you weave your way through the Village.
Famous former and current residents of Marylebone include Adam Ant, AJ Ayer, Jane Asher, Charles Babbage, Francis Beaufort, Derren Brown, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Jacqueline du Pré, Sir Clement Freud, Noel Gallagher, Edward Gibbon, Jimi Hendrix, the fictional Sherlock Holmes, Edward Lear, John Lennon, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Sienna Miller, Yoko Ono, Pitt the Elder, Guy Ritchie, Ringo Starr, HG Wells, Charles Wesley, Barbara Windsor and Norman Wisdom.
London is an exciting and inspiring capital city in which to live and work. 30% of London residents were born outside England, and more than 300 languages are spoken in London: as one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, it offers an unrivalled range of cultural and leisure activities. There is always something to do and somewhere to go, whatever your tastes.
Academy. 1910-11 by Sir Ernest George and Alfred B Yeates. Red brick with generous stone dressings, channelled stone ground floor and stone faced centrepiece; slate roofs. Large symmetrical composition with centre block and projecting wings designed as a scaled up free version of an English baroque country house. 5 storey and basement centre block with dormers in steeply hipped roof and wings with podium-ground floor and double height upper storey. Centre block 6 windows wide with 2-window centrepiece and 3-bay wings. Ground floor of centrepiece built out to form large porch with semicircular arched keystoned entrance and 1st floor sill band carried over as cornice. Recessed glazing bar casements, semicircular arched with keystones on ground floor; the 1st to 3rd floor windows vertically linked by stone architraves and aprons with bold segmental pediments over those on 2nd floor to flanking bays and triangular pediments in centrepiece; attic storey with segmented arched windows in centrepiece and stone framed corniced and keyed oeils-de-boeuf in flanking bays. Rusticated quoins; centrepiece main floors flanked by giant Ionic pilasters rising to deep entablature carried across block and returned to sides and attic eaves cornice with bold segmental pediment on consoles over centrepiece containing oeil-de-boeuf framed by 2 large reclining figures. Casemented dormers and symmetrically grouped lofty stone banded and corniced arch panelled chimney stacks. The wings balance but differ slightly; left hand one with central, vertically linked stone architraves, 1st floor window and 2nd floor console pedimented half dormer, flanking carved panels; the right hand wing (housing Duke's Hall) with advanced quoined and pedimented centrepiece with semicircular arched windows; both wings have angle quoins, vases on parapets and steep, almost pyramidal slate roofs with same tall chimney stacks as main block, to flanks.