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All Saints was built when the area was being developed by the London County Council. The LCC had acquired Totterdown Fields for a housing estate in 1900 and the Totterdown Fields Estate was laid out on a grid system with 2-storey terraces, designed by E Stone Collins of the LCC Architects Department. By 1911 it comprised 1,229 houses and 4 shops with the church at the centre. All Saints was built in 1904-6 by Temple Moore through the beneficence of Lady Charles Brudenell-Bruce in memory of her husband; Brudenell Road recalls the family. The church is set back from the road within a hedged garden, largely grassed, and with a war memorial surrounded by planting, and a shrub bed adjacent to north-east of the church.

All Saints Church stands on an important historic site, marking the old medieval centre of Wandsworth Town, which grew up by a river crossing of the River Wandle near where it joined the Thames and Wandsworth High Street follows the old road. The medieval church was largely rebuilt in 1779-80 by William Jupp, later altered in 1841 when the upper part of the west tower was added to the bottom storey of 1630. Further works took place in 1859 and again in 1899-1900, and the church was restored in 1955 following damage in WWII. The churchyard is simply laid out with grass and some seats, with crazy paving path around the church and a number of trees along the front and side boundaries. The boundary is marked by iron posts and ornamental chain over a low brick wall, a narrow flower bed on one boundary. In c.2004 the western part was laid out in York stone and the enclosing walls renewed, with new trees planted.

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Alton Estate was built by the LCC in the 1950s over a high lying site that contained a number of C18th houses and their gardens, elements of which remain, partly within the housing estate and partly within educational establishments that now occupy the houses. The estate aimed to accommodate 9,500 people and provide schools, community buildings and shops; public open space was included within the overall design, with mature trees from the earlier landscaping retained. It was developed in two phases by different teams of architects. The earlier was Alton East built c.1951-55 under Rosemary Stjernstedt adopting Swedish and picturesque principles of town planning as a setting for the 11-storey point blocks and terraces of maisonettes. Alton West, built c.1954-58 under Colin Lucas on the grounds of Downshire House, Manresa House and Mount Clare, was influenced by Le Corbusier's ideas.

The Bank of England Sports Ground at Roehampton has provided sports facilities for the Bank of England since the early 1900s, but membership is now open to the public. The Sports Centre is the host of the Wimbledon Qualifying tournament and is next door to the newly built National Tennis Centre. In 1933, a stump of the old lime tree in the Bank of England Garden Court (q.v.) in the City was replanted in the Bank's Sports Ground in Roehampton, and in May 1944 it was reported in the Bank's Archives as showing signs of flourishing. This tree may have originated from the early days of the garden as when it was cut down its rings indicated it was around 128 years old.

Barn Elms Park is essentially a landscaped path between Horne Way near the river and Lower Richmond Road. The OS Map of 1869-74 shows the layout much as it is today with a central path flanked by grass and trees, and a shallow semi-circular entrance at the south, with a small lodge.

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Battersea Park is an early municipal park that opened to the public in 1854, the formal opening by Queen Victoria taking place in 1858. The park's original layout had a perimeter carriage drive, perimeter trees and shrubberies, grand tree-lined avenue, winding walks and a serpentine lake with Pulhamite rockwork. It was noted for its horticultural displays, particularly the Sub-tropical Garden supplied by plants grown in the park's greenhouses. There was a bandstand, bowling green and children's gymnasium, and on the east side an open grassed area for sports, now the Athletics Ground. Near this was an American Ground, now created as a nature reserve. A Woodland Walk was added in c.1904 and an Old English Garden in 1912. In 1951 15 hectares were laid out as the Festival Gardens for the Festival of Britain. Many of the park's C19th and C20th landscape features have been restored, funded principally through an HLF grant awarded in 1998, completed in 2004.

Christchurch Gardens is the former burial ground of Christ Church and was laid out as a public garden in 1885. The original church was built in 1849 to serve Battersea's growing population, but was destroyed by bombing in 1944. Christchurch and St Stephen was rebuilt on the site in 1959. The triangular garden is surrounded by hedging and has original railings; a picturesque curved brick shelter provides seating and once had a bronze plaque commemorating local civilians who died in WWII. The garden has rose beds, lawn, and trees include horse chestnut and ornamental cherry.

Clapham Common is partly in Lambeth, partly in Wandsworth and was formerly two commons belonging to the neighbouring parishes. Its importance for recreation was early acknowledged and it was subject to landscape improvement from 1722 onwards. In 1836 a management committee secured a lease from the two lords of the manor. Following the Metropolitan Commons Act of 1866 the MBW assumed responsibility for a number of commons including Clapham, which it purchased in 1877, and introduced a programme of improvements and facilities. In 1890 a reproduction of the bandstand in the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Kensington was erected here.

Coronation Gardens were formally opened by the Mayor of Wandsworth on 4 July 1903 to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII in August 1902. The land had been purchased by the previous Mayor, Sir William Lancaster, who gave it to the people of Wandsworth in perpetuity. The layout, undertaken by Fanny Wilkinson landscape architect of the MPGA, has little changed, with original entrance gates on Merton Road; a path flanked by horse chestnut trees leads to a rough hewn granite drinking fountain with Art Nouveau-style bowl and ornamental railings, which was donated by the sisters of the Mayor.

Dover House Road Estate is one of a number of important LCC cottage estates inspired by the Garden City movement and the pioneering town planning of Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. The land was previously the estates of two large houses, Dover House and Putney Park House, which were purchased by the LCC soon after WWI. Houses on Dover House Road Estate were designed in groups that overlooked or had access to open space, and the estate was laid out with cul de sacs, generous verges, street trees and front privet hedging, as well as communal green spaces, the largest of which is The Pleasance Open Space, once a medieval green. Allotments were provided in three backland areas, one of which was lost to development in the 1970s, but the remaining two allotments are managed by the Roehampton Garden Society. As a result of demand for allotments, many of the original plots have been divided and the Society now administers in excess of 200 plots across the two sites.

This area was formerly part of the estate of Clock House, which was built in the late C18th on land taken from Earl Spencer's estate; in 1796 a Jacob Bell lived here. The Clock House estate ceased to exist when it was purchased by the Fulham Railway in c.1888 for the Wimbledon extension of the railway line. The area was then developed for housing between 1895-1905, an estate plan was laid out by the landowners and building lots then acquired and developed by different builders. The focal point is the green space at the junction of Rusholme Road and Holmbush Road. Holmbush Road and the north part of Rusholme Road was built by a family called Parnell, and the houses in Rusholme Road and Dromore Road south and east of the green were built by John Tuckett. The triangular green was provided as public open space by Wandsworth Borough Council, and was opened to the public in 1922, laid out with grass and trees and has 8 mature trees, one lime and seven horse chestnut, which may be a remnant of old hedgerow.

Du Cane Court is an impressive Art Deco housing complex built in 1938, at that time the largest purpose-built private accommodation of this type in Europe. There are a range of different flats and maisonettes, and the communal gardens at the front were designed by Seyemon Kusumoto, one of which has a water feature comprising a pond and waterfall. One of the most enduring myths is that the building was used by the Luftwaffe as a visual navigation point during air raids in WWII, which may have led to the associated myth that Hitler had the building in mind for housing his officers in the event of a conquest of or accord with Britain. A Residents Association has been set up to maintain the estate.