Tuesday, 25 August 2015







 
 
 
 
Bedford Square buildings are  some of the best preserved set pieces of Georgian architecture in London, but most of the houses have now been converted into offices. Numbers 1-10, 11, 12–27, 28–38 and 40–54 are grade one listed buildings. The central garden remains private. Bedford College, was the first place for female higher education in Britain, it was formerly located in (and named after) Bedford Square.
Building the Square
All I had was a small sample of the building in photo  form . Which I then copy each section until I had a full wall 3 story high I then printed and past them to cardboard  adding down pipes to hide the joins
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bedford Square is named after the Dukes of Bedford, who were the main landowners in Bloomsbury and developed the area from the 1660s to the 1850s.  It is one of the best-preserved  squares, designed as a whole and surrounded by its original Georgian terraces (although the buildings now mainly contain offices rather than family homes). The Square was the first garden square with an imposed architectural uniformity and it set the style for garden squares in London through the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It became the focal point of a new grid of streets to the west, north and south, although this plan took eighty years to complete. The whole Bloomsbury Estate was formerly enclosed with a system of gates, which were erected in the early to mid 19th century to guarantee the residents’ protection and privacy. The gates and lodges were removed between 1891 and 1893; those protecting Bedford Square in 1893. [English Heritage record]




















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