John Nash
John Nash was one of London’s greatest architects in the early 19th-century. He started working for the Prince Regent (later King George IV) in 1811, and was asked for his ideas on landscaping Marylebone Park.
Nash’s ambitious plan involved creating an avenue from Regent’s Park through Regent Street, Trafalgar Square and up the Mall to the Regent’s home in St. James’s Park.
Nash worked on the project for the next twenty-three years with his talented assistants – including a young Decimus Burton – but the only part that remains today is the curved route of Regent Street.
Other works by Nash
Other works include the laying out of Trafalgar Square, although the surrounding buildings were added by later architects.
In 1825 he was invited to work on Buckingham Palace, but the West Wing is all that survives of his work.
His monumental gate which stood where the balcony stands today was later moved to Oxford Street, and is known to us as Marble Arch.
Historical pictures
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Regent StreetRegent Street is one of London’s finest shopping streets, and the main part of ‘Nash’s Sweep’.
