Onslow Square

St Paul's, Onslow Square (known as HTB Onslow Square), is a Grade II listed Anglican church in Onslow Square, South Kensington, London, England. The church was built in 1860, and the architect was James Edmeston. Hanmer William Webb-Peploe (1837–1923), the evangelical clergyman, and member of the Holiness Movement, was the vicar for 43 years from 1876 to 1919.In the late 1970s, the parish of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) merged with the neighbouring parish of St Paul's, Onslow Square. St Paul's was declared redundant. An attempt by the Diocese of London to sell the building for private redevelopment was thwarted in the early 1980s when local residents joined with churchgoers to save the church. In the late 1980s, the Parochial Church Council requested that the redundancy be overturned which allowed curate Nicky Lee and his wife Sila to plant a congregation there as well as undertake some building structural maintenance work.In 1997, the congregation at St Paul's divided into three, with some going with curate Stuart Lees to plant a church in Fulham; others returning to HTB with Nicky and Sila Lee; and others forming the St Paul's Anglican Fellowship and remaining based at St Paul's with John Peters. This last group left in 2002 to plant into St Mary's, Bryanston Square. During 2007, after plans by HTB to rebuild the 1960s offices were withdrawn following difficulty in getting support from local residents, HTB decided to undertake some renovations and to resume services in the church. St Paul's launched 9 am and 6 pm services in September 2007 and followed with an 11 am service on 20 January 2008 and a 4 pm service on 28 September 2009. In December 2009 the upstairs balcony was recommissioned for worship, having previously been used for administrative offices (the office occupants having moved to HTB's nearby office building purchased in 2008). The church holds services at 10.30 am, 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm every Sunday.

James Edmeston (10 September 1791 – 7 January 1867) was an English architect and surveyor; he was also known as a prolific writer of church hymns. He was born in Wapping, Middlesex, England. His maternal grandfather was the Reverend Samuel Brewer, congregationalist pastor at Stepney Meeting House for 50 years. However, James was attracted to the Church of England and soon became an Anglican.

1–5 and 6 Sydney Place, South Kensington, are a group of large terrace houses situated on the corner of Sydney Place and Fulham Road in London, United Kingdom. Sydney Place leads into Onslow Square. The buildings have been listed Grade II as a group on the National Heritage List for England since 1969.The buildings span 5 floors and the freehold is owned by the Wellcome Trust. They stand four storeys high and cover over 5600 square feet.Designed by George Basevi in the early nineteenth century, they were built by Charles James Freake between 1844 and 1845. At the end of the century, 1 Sydney Place changed from a residential to a commercial building. Until its acquisition by an interior designer company in 2017, the building had been home to a branch of HSBC bank.

Park House, at 7–11 Onslow Square, is a detached house in the South Kensington district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London SW7. It is set in one acre (4,000 m2) of land and is shielded by trees from public view. Park House was created from a pair of lodges, Pelham Cottage and Park Cottage built in the 1840s that were merged into a single property in the 1980s.The house was owned by Mark Birley who lived there with his wife Annabel Goldsmith. Goldsmith wrote a memoir, No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years about her time at the house. Goldsmith described her first visit to the house creating a "catch of pure excitement in my throat...I could not believe that such an oasis could exist only a few yards from South Kensington Tube station. In my daze of delight, I knew immediately that I had stumbled upon something magical".The house was sold by the German art historian and industrial heir Gert-Rudolf Flick for £40 million to the businessman Richard Caring in 2017. Flick described Park House as "almost a country house in the middle of London". The house had been on sale for £105 million since September 2013.Caring has submitted proposals to demolish the present house and replace it with an 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m2) six-bedroomed two-storey house with a double-level basement. The new ground floor will have a dining room and a 48 ft (15 m) long drawing room in addition to a family room and a children's study. The planned basement will incorporate a cinema and a 50 ft (15 m) long swimming pool as well as a massage, steam and sauna rooms and a gym. Caring's proposal received 22 letters of objection from local residents. A £235,000 payment for local housing in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea formed part of the conditions for the council's approval of the plans.

South Kensington is a London Underground station in the district of South Kensington, south west London. It is served by the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines. On the District and Circle lines it is between Gloucester Road and Sloane Square, and on the Piccadilly line between Gloucester Road and Knightsbridge. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The main station entrance is located at the junction of Old Brompton Road (A3218), Thurloe Place, Harrington Road, Onslow Place and Pelham Street. Subsidiary entrances are located in Exhibition Road giving access by pedestrian tunnel to the Natural History, Science and Victoria and Albert Museums. Also close by are the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College London, the Royal College of Music, the London branch of the Goethe-Institut and the Ismaili Centre. The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms opened in 1868 by the Metropolitan Railway and the District Railway as part of the companies' extension of the Inner Circle route eastwards from Gloucester Road to Westminster and deep level platforms opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks, which have been modified several times to suit operational demands with the current arrangement being achieved in the 1960s. The deep-level platforms have remained largely unaltered, although the installation of escalators in the 1970s to replace lifts improved interchanges between the two parts of the station. Parts of the sub-surface station and the Exhibition Road pedestrian tunnel are Grade II listed.

St Luke's Chapel, Brompton Hospital is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Chelsea, London, England. The chapel was built in 1849, and the architect was E. B. Lamb. It forms part of the Royal Brompton Hospital.

The Royal Marsden Hospital (RM) is a specialist cancer treatment hospital in London based in Kensington and Chelsea, next to the Royal Brompton Hospital, in Fulham Road with a second site in Belmont, close to Sutton Hospital, High Down and Downview Prisons. It is managed by the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust which operates the Royal Marsden Hospital facilities on two sites: The Chelsea site in Brompton, next to the Royal Brompton Hospital, in Fulham Road (51.4908°N 0.1729°W / 51.4908; -0.1729 (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea site)) The Sutton site in Belmont, close to Sutton Hospital, High Down and Downview Prisons (51.3434°N 0.1906°W / 51.3434; -0.1906 (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton site))

Pelham Place is a street of Grade II* listed Georgian terraced houses in South Kensington, London, England. Pelham Place runs north to south from Pelham Place to Pelham Crescent. 2-14 is a circa 1825 terrace. 1-29 is an 1833 terrace, designed by the architect George Basevi. 1-29 is similarly grade II listed.In 1950, the British-born American winemaker Peter Newton met his future wife, Anne St. Aubyn at a party in his house in Pelham Place.Mel Brooks briefly lived in Pelham Place in the 1950s, while working at the BBC on the Sid Caesar show.In 1967, Cecil Beaton photographed the model Twiggy wearing a yellow velvet dress by John Bates for Jean Varon in the residence of 8 Pelham Place, for an editorial for Vogue. Beaton lived here from 1940 to 1975. This was later the home of Jane, Lady Abdy.

OKA (also known as OKA Direct) is a British furniture and home accessories retailer founded in 1999 by Annabel Astor, Sue Jones, and Lucinda Waterhouse and owned by Investindustrial. OKA has 14 shops across the UK, together with British and American websites and a catalogue business.

The Zetland Arms is a pub in South Kensington, London, on the corner of Old Brompton Road and Bute Street. It dates from the mid-1840s. The pub is one of the few surviving original buildings from when this area was first developed. In 1875, there was a brawl at the pub which started with insults about the Devonshire origin of some drinkers. A policeman ejected about a dozen people who continued fighting in the street, which resulted in a death from a fractured skull.It is claimed by the current owners, the pub chain Taylor Walker, that Charlie Chaplin bought the pub for his brother Marlon and his mother. On pubshistory.com, it is noted that "According to the pub sign, the 1880 landlord Sid Chaplin was the older half brother of Charlie Chaplin the film star", and the 1880 Post Office Directory confirms that a Sid Chaplin was landlord in 1880.

The London School of Dramatic Art is a drama school based in South Kensington in London that offers training for those intending to pursue a professional career in acting.