PUBLIC GARDEN

Emslie Horniman Pleasance Gardens

East Row, Kensal Green,
Kensington & Chelsea, London.

1913

For Emslie John Horniman.

C.F.A.Voysey with Madeline Agar.

Flower garden with a waterway, pergolas, oak bridge, drinking posts, shelters, sandpit, yard and lavatories.

According to Joanna Symonds the existing pleasure ground corresponds to the British Architect's illustrations
except that there are no pergolas, drinking posts, bridge or sandpit.

Pleasure Ground, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Photo by Steve Cadman on flickr

Photo by Steve Cadman on Flickr

Pleasure Ground, photo courtesy of John Trotter

Photo on pinterest, pin by Arthur Lafollette

Photo by W10 on Flickr

Photo by Steve Cadman on flickr

Photo by Steve Cadman on Flickr

Photo by Justina Burnett, on www.londongardenstrust.org, London Parks and Gardens Trust

Horniman Gardens, photo by john williams on flickr

Text from The British Architect, 17th October 1913, p.272.

Plan from The British Architect, 17th October 1913, p.273.

Drawing from The British Architect, 17th October 1913.

Plan and elevation from The British Architect, 17th October 1913.

Pevsner's London 3: North West (with Bridget Cherry, 1991) says:

An early improvement was the RECREATION GROUND (the Emslie Horniman Pleasance) between East Row and Bosworth Road, presented by Emslie J Horniman in 1911, with – a great surprise – buildings and garden layout designed by CFA Voysey. The rectangular garden is laid out around a formal pool. It is surrounded by roughcast walls, white above a black plinth, pierced by circular openings with iron grilles. At either end are arched shelters, and above the entrance is a well-lettered inscription. The ironwork is by W B Reynolds.

Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.

Description on Historic England

TQ 2482 SW EAST ROW W10 6/1 Walls and Shelters in Emslie Horniman Pleasance Gardens
II
1914 C F A Voysey. Structures in and surrounding an acre of gardens designed and laid out by Voysey and financed by M Emslie Horniman. Roughcast walls and shelters, buttressed with circular openings to street and gabled finials. Central entrance with Tudor arch. Shelter to north and south with triple Tudor arches. York paving and blue Staffordshire coping tiles.