George Gutch

George Gutch (1790-1894) was a British architect and to four successive Bishops of London[1] surveyor for much of the Diocese's c. 500-acre (2.0 km2) southern strip of the parish of Paddington.

Gutch laid out roads, communal garden areas and designed certain of the grand terraces, now listed buildings (statutorily protected) in Hyde Park Square and adjoining streets.

This was part of his Final Plan for Tyburnia of 1838, which enlisted other architects for some buildings such as George Ledwell Taylor.

[2] These still private-housing dominated neighbourhoods in Bayswater focus on and have been widely, popularly, re-branded Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village.

[1] Gutch was tasked to finish the designs for St James' Church, Sussex Gardens, in what is now termed Lancaster Gate (with or without optional suffixes, Bayswater, Paddington) (c. 1841) as John Goldicutt died.