Sloane Street

Sloane-Street, Chelsea, or Knightsbridge,—the first on the L. about ⅜ of a mile from Hyde-park-corner, here the numbers begin and end, it extends to Sloane-square, (where there is 145) about ⅝ of a mile in length.

Sloane-St., Chelsea, or Knightsbridge, is the first turning on the left hand side going from Hyde-park-corner.

Sloane Street, a very long street lying between Knightsbridge and the King's Road, and so called after Sir Hans Sloane, the physician, and Lord of the Manor of Chelsea. It was planned in 1780 by the architect Henry Holland. [See Cadogan Place; Chelsea; Hans Place.]

On the 26th of October (1818) Mrs. Inchbald went once more into private lodgings at No. 48 in Sloane Street; a situation to which she had always professed uncommon dislike.—Boaden, Life of Mrs. Inchbald, vol. ii. p. 230.

Originally on the east side, near Sloane Square, was Holy Trinity Church, erected from the designs of James Savage, architect, and consecrated May 8, 1830. This church was pulled down in 1889, and replaced by a new one, built from the designs of J.D. Sedding, architect, at a cost of nearly £35,000, defrayed by Earl Cadogan. Consecrated by the Bishop of London, May 13, 1890.

In Sloane Square, at the south end of Sloane Street, lived (1790–1797) Francis Legat, the engraver of Northcote's Murder of the Princes in the Tower and other excellent plates.

When Lord Byron, at ten years of age, was brought to London for the benefit of Dr. Matthew Baillie's advice, his mother took apartments in Sloane Terrace, the second turning south of Cadogan Place, on the east side of Sloane Street. Here too he came for the Saturdays and Sundays, and for all holidays, during the two years he was at Dr. Glennie's School at Dulwich.