Glebe Place, SW3
Royal Hospital
Credit: MykReeve
Glebe Place was built over a former road called Cooks Ground.

A chapel was built here in 1687 on Cooks Ground for the Huguenots who settled in Chelsea after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. It was demolished in 1892.

Glebe Place and Manresa Road became the centre for artists in London and, in the 1880s, it was internationally famous as the arts centre of London.

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