Canons Park, Harrow, Edgware, England
Record Id: 675
The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest:
The remaining part of an early 18th century landscape park laid out for James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos by Alexander Blackwell, later modified by Humphry Repton, with a kitchen garden redesigned in 1938 as the George V Memorial Garden and formal gardens of about 1910 by the architect Charles E Mallows.
LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING
Canons Park lies in the former county of Middlesex, between Edgware to the east and Stanmore to the west, on the east side of the former Stanmore railway line (now Jubilee Line).
The registered site comprises about 50 hectares of formal gardens and parkland surrounded by housing and other suburban development. The avenues running west from the park towards Marsh Lane, across the railway line, and running east along Canons Drive to Edgware High Street, have been retained.
REFERENCES used by English Heritage:
Country Life, 40 (28 October 1916), pp 518-526
Building News, (6 October 1911)
B Cherry and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 3 North-West (1991), pp 295-298
Maps
OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1863-1864
2nd edition published 1920
OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1863-1864
2nd edition surveyed 1891, published 1896
3rd edition published 1914
1947 edition
Illustrations
H Repton, View of Canons Park, 1805 (reproduced in CL 1916)
Archival items
Sale particulars, 1887 [copy on EH file]
Description written: May 1998
Amended: August 1998
Edited: July 2001
Owner: Harrow Council
Site designation(s)
English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England Grade II Reference 4052
Principal building:
House Created 1753 to 1805
The previos house was demolished in 1753, and the new property, Canons House, is known to have been in place by 1805. Charles E Mallows made extensie alterations after 1905. The house is now owned by the North London Collegiate School.
Visitor facilities
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