Jonathan Thomas Carr was an English cloth merchant turned property developer and speculator. He is remembered for founding the Bedford Park garden suburb in Chiswick, west London. While he probably wa
Carr, aged 19 in 1864
Painting of Carr's large property in Bedford Park, Tower House (centre), by Manfred Trautschold, 1882
Carr's promotion of 'Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. the Healthiest Place in the World': coloured lithograph by Frederick Hamilton Jackson, c. 1882
Jonathan Carr plaque on the wall of St Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Park
British Queen Anne Revival architecture, also known as Domestic Revival, is a style of building using red brick, white woodwork, and an eclectic mixture of decorative features, that became popular in
Norman Shaw Buildings, Victoria Embankment, Westminster. North Building, 1887 (right); South Building, 1902 (left)
Red brick and tile-hung detail, "a little genuine Queen Anne"
"curly pedimented gables ... a little Dutch"
"small window panes, ... bay windows, wooden balconies"