Chiswick School of Art

The lead developer was Jonathan Carr, who in 1875 bought 24 acres (9.7 ha) of land just north of the new Turnham Green Station.

The arts and crafts architect Maurice Bingham Adams was commissioned to design a School of Art building, which was completed on Bath Road in 1881, near the new Tabard Inn, Richard Norman Shaw's St Michael and All Angels Church, and a shop.

[2] The school was formally opened on Saturday, 19 November 1881, and this was followed by an evening party with the Conservative member of parliament Alexander Beresford Hope presiding.

[3] The new building was illustrated by Thomas Erat Harrison in a book of 1882 called Bedford Park.

[2] At the outset, the school taught "Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass".