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fine example of a Palladian
villa. Burlington revered
Palladio and his disciple Inigo
Jones, and statues of both
stand outside. Built around
a central octagonal room, the
house is packed with references
to ancient Rome and
Renaissance Italy, as is the garden.
Chiswick was Burlington’s
country residence and this
house was built as an annexe
to a larger, older house (since
demolished). It was designed
for recreation and entertaining
– Lord Hervey, Burlington’s
enemy, dismissed it as “too little
to live in and too big to hang
on a watch chain”. Some of the
ceiling paintings are by William
Kent, who also contributed to
the garden design.
The house was an asylum
from 1892 until 1928, when a The Belvedere takes centre stage at Chelsea Harbour
long process of restoration
began. The layout of the garden, and then bombing during World % Chelsea Harbour
now a public park, is much as War II, the house has done well to SW10. 1 Fulham Broadway.
Burlington designed it. survive. It has now been turned 7 Exhibitions. - =
into a small museum and gallery,
which is filled mostly with This is an impressive develop
engraved copies of the moralistic ment of modern apartments,
cartoonstyle pictures with shops, offices, restaurants, a
which Hogarth made his name. hotel and a marina. It is near
Salutary tales, such as The Rake’s the site of Cremorne Pleasure
Progress (in Sir John Soane’s Gardens, which closed in 1877
Museum – see pp140–41), after more than 40 years as a
Marriage à la Mode, An Election venue for dances and circuses.
Entertainment and many others, The centrepiece is the
can all be seen here. Belvedere, a 20storey apart
ment tower with an external
Plaque on Hogarth’s House glass lift and a pyramid roof,
$ Fulham Palace topped with a golden ball on
£ Hogarth’s House Bishops Ave SW6. Tel 020 7736 3233. a rod that rises and falls with
Hogarth Lane W4. Tel 020 8994 6757. 1 Putney Bridge. Open Summer: the tide.
1 Turnham Green. Open noon–5pm 12:30–4:30pm Mon–Thu, noon–5pm
Tue–Sun & bank hol Mon. Closed Sun & bank hol Mon; Winter: 12:30–
1 Jan, Good Fri, Easter Sun, 24–26 Dec. 3:30pm Mon–Thu, noon–4pm Sun.
7 ground floor only. = Closed Good Fri, 25 & 26 Dec. Park
∑ hounslow.info/arts/ Open daylight hours daily. 7 8 2–3
hogarthshouse times each month; check website for
days and times. - = Events, concerts,
When the painter William lectures. ∑ fulhampalace.org
Hogarth lived here from 1749
until his death in 1764, he called The home of the Bishops of
it “a little country box by the London from the 8th century
Thames” and painted bucolic until 1973, the oldest surviving
views from its windows – he parts of Fulham Palace date
had moved here from Leicester from the 15th century. The
Square (see p107). Today, traffic palace stands in its own land
roars by along the Great West scaped gardens. A restoration
Road on its way to and from project completed in 2007
Heathrow Airport. In an revealed a grand, longhidden
environment as hostile as this, Rococo ceiling. Plans are in place Fulham Palace’s entrance, which dates
and following years of neglect to redevelop the site during 2018. from Tudor times
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