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https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/12-16_Clapham_Common_South_Side.jpg1199899This walk will cover the earlier background of the area and focus on the grander Victorian architecture that still remains It will include Crescent Grove by Francis Child, the Alexandra Hotel by Edward I’Anson and St Mary’s church by William Wardell, enlarged by J. F. Benson, which Pevsner called ‘one of the best Victorian churches in south London’.