Rodney Street, Liverpool
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox street Rodney Street in Liverpool, England, is noted for the number of doctors who practise there and its Georgian architecture. It is sometimes referred to as the "Harley Street of the North". Together with Hope Street and Gambier Terrace it forms the Rodney Street conservation area. There are over 60 Grade II listed buildings on the street and one Grade II* former church.Template:Efn
History
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Sometimes referred to in local media as the "Harley Street of the North", some buildings on Rodney Street are now used by doctors conducting private clinics, notably for cosmetic surgery.[2]
Buildings
No. 9 was the birthplace of Arthur Clough, a poet born in 1819. No. 62 (built 1792–1793) was the birthplace in 1809 of William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on four separate occasions through the 1860s to the 1890s, and the home of his father John. No. 59 Rodney Street was home and studio to photographer Edward Chambré Hardman from 1947 to 1988,[3] and his wife, business partner and fellow photographer, Margaret Hardman until her death in 1969,[4][5] and is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public. On the north side of Rodney Street stands the disused Scottish Presbyterian Church of Saint Andrew, built in 1823–1824. The body of the church is of a simple two-storey design with round arched windows and stuccoed walls designed by Daniel Stewart. The façade of blackened ashlar, designed by John Foster Jr., is an imposing composition of Ionic entrance columns, flanked by corner towers, topped with Corinthian columns and domes. In 2012, the former church was renovated and redeveloped to provide en suite student accommodation for 100 students.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Notable residents
- Henry Booth merchant, entrepreneur, and engineer
- Arthur Hugh Clough and Anne Clough were born in the street
- James Gregson, slave trader and son of William Gregson[6]
- William Henry Duncan, appointed as Liverpool's first Medical Officer of Health in 1847
- William Ewart Gladstone was born at No. 62
- E. Chambré Hardman, photographer, studio at No. 59[7]
- Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist, was born on the street.[8]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- William Roscoe, developer and historian
- James Maury, the first United States consul from 1790 to 1829, lived at No. 4 Rodney Street
- Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, was born at No. 4 Rodney Street in 1934
See also
- Architecture of Liverpool
- Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool-L1
- Grade II* listed buildings in Liverpool – City Centre
References
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- ↑ Liverpool Record Office Annual Report 2008-2009
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Further reading
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