Chenies Street Chambers      
Historical Society    

photograph taken circa 1893

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photograph of Charity, one of the 6'x8' plaster panels
of Faith, Hope, Charity and Wisdom
by the sculptor Mary Ellen Rope.

First exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World Fair
and later placed in the Chapel
of the Ladies Residential Dwellings,
Chenies Street Chambers
through the intervention of  
Mary Ellen Rope's former art teacher,
the great 19th century Housing reformer,
Octavia Hill

Source: Mary Ellen Rope: The Poet Scultor
(art catalogue)

Chenies Street Chambers circa 1912

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Chenies Street Chambers

used by kind permission of the
Holborn Local Archives Library
reproduced by  
Geremy Butler Photography
scanned in by Jaqueline Powell

coming soon:

photograph taken  circa 1923

The Rangers Memorial, with Chenies Street chambers in the background

photograph taken 30.04.1941
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showing bomb damage to Chenies Street Chambers

used by kind permission of the
Holborn Local Archives Library
reproduced by  
Geremy Butler Photography
scanned in by Jacqueline Powell

3 photographs taken circa 1950's
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showing the children of Chenies Street Chambers
at a party in the Drill Hall

used by kind permission of the
Pat Futasugi
and scanned in by Jacqueline Powell

photograph taken 2002

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One of the remaining tips of the angel wings
from two  of the plaster panels
by  the artist Mary Ellen Rope,
which can still be found in the
architrave of Flat 3 Chenies Street Chambers

coming soon:

photograph taken  circa 2002

Chenies Street Chambers

photograph taken in March 2000

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Two of the early Council tenants of
Chenies Street Chambers,
Mrs Ida DiMaggio (deceased, March 2002)
with Patsy Futatsugi  
(who moved into the building at the
age of five, in 1947).