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Sydney Mews

Sydney Mews is a small mews just north of Fulham Road. It is entered through an arched entrance.

The buildings have very large studio style windows and there is a small road at the back and some garages at the side.

The entrance is cobbled, although the mews itself is not.

Sydney Place was built on land owned by the Smith's Charity estate behind Cranley Terrace, with two arched entrances onto Fulham Road.

The mews took its name from the third Viscount Sydney (later Earl Sydney) who was one of the Smith's Charity trustees. This was part of the general development of the area by Charles Freake.

The mews was ultimately intended to provide stabling and servants quarters for the richer houses on the main streets. But in the 1850s when it was built, part was reserved for Freake's workshops, and part was used to construct a custom-built studio and foundry for Baron Carlo Marochetti, a well-known sculptor who lived at 34 Onslow Square from 1849 till his death in 1867. It was in Sydney Mews that Marochetti cast the lions which sit at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, and which were designed by Landseer. When Marochetti died the premises were converted into smaller studios for artists.

 

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