Milner Street, SW3

Milner Street runs roughly west from Cadogan Square, crossing Ovington Street, Lennox Gardens and Clabon Mews.

The interior of St Simon Zelotes church, Milner Street, SW3
Credit: Geograph/John Salmon

The trustees of Mary Jane Milner owned a slip of land between Cheyne Walk and King’s Road.

The area to the south of Hans Square was occupied by a large house, The Pavilion, the gardens of which were laid out by Capability Brown. They were extensive by the middle of the 19th century.

The delightfully-named Green Lettuce Lane connected The Pavilion via a private road to (what is now) Draycott Avenue; the private road was almost fully developed as Milner Street by 1865; Green Lettuce Lane is now Mossop Street.

St Simon Zelotes, a grade II listed church, was built in Milner Street during 1858–59. It was designed by the architect Joseph Peacock, and is his "most complete surviving work".

Other notable buildings include 10 Milner Street, sometimes known as Stanley House a grade II listed house built by the Chelsea speculator John Todd in 1855, for his own occupation. It has been grade II listed since 1969.

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Harrods Department Store frontage as viewed along Brompton Rd at night (2012) Credit: David Liff TUM image id: 1557150671 Licence:	Cadogan Hall (2017) Cadogan Hall is a former Scientology church which fell into disuse. Completed in 1907 to designs in the Byzantine Revival style, it became a concert hall in 2004. Credit: Wiki Commons/Paul the Archivist TUM image id: 1670597886 Licence:	The London Oratory Credit: FB Group Londonist Urban Oddities/Jim Hoe TUM image id: 1653846106 Licence:	Bibendum, The Michelin Building on Fulham Road, Chelsea Credit: Wiki Commons/Steve Cadman TUM image id: 1670678558 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Cadogan Place gardens, SW1. The northern garden was laid out by Humphry Repton in 1806. Repton laid out winding paths and created ridges and dips from excavated soil. Credit: Instagram/@the lois edit TUM image id: 1630936394 Licence:
Buildings on the north side of Cadogan Square (2008) Credit: Wiki Commons/Cj1340 TUM image id: 1691443423 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Ennismore Mews, SW7 with the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Dormiton at the end Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1634644830 Licence:	Lennox Gardens (2015) Lennox Gardens was built in the Queen Anne style over the final remaining market garden south of Knightbridge in 1882. Credit: Wiki Commons/Spudgun67 TUM image id: 1670603830 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Lowndes Street, c. 1905. TUM image id: 1483984242 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Admiral Codrington, 17 Mossop Street, Chelsea Credit: National Brewery Heritage Trust TUM image id: 1670610088 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Motcomb Street (2021) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1673351375 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Pavilion Road is London’s longest mews and runs parallel to Sloane Street Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1670684264 Licence: CC BY 2.0	‘Pont Street Dutch’, a termed by Sir Osbert Lancaster CBE (1908-1986), is the architectural style typified by the large red brick gabled houses built in the 1880s in Pont Street. Credit: Atkey and Co. TUM image id: 1695299248 Licence:	Tite Street, SW3 (1955) Playing in the street wasn’t an activity confined to Chelsea’s mean streets as this view of Tite Street shows. Baseball is being played here. In spotted dressed and suit trousers, the young (possibly American) boys and girls look dashing as they frolic around under the sun peaking through the trees. Tite Street was formerly home to Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Credit: John Bignell TUM image id: 1633097254 Licence:	Walton Street, SW3 That ladder is a health and safety nightmare! Not that I believe in moaning about H&S nor nothing. I leave that to others... TUM image id: 1466549385 Licence: