The Boltons

The Boltons is a street and garden square of lens shape in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (postcode SW10).

[5] The Boltons was built in the middle of the 19th century by architect and journalist George Godwin on land which was originally market gardens.

St Mary The Boltons church interrupts the garden, consecrated on 22 October 1850, the spire of which was added in 1854.

For much of the 20th century, numbers 20 and 21 served as Our Lady's convent, which was run by the Franciscan missionaries of Mary, together with a girls' hostel next door.

29 The Boltons, on the junction of Tregunter and Gilston Roads, housed the infants' reception and two primary classes with a garden play area, as part of the nearby Lycée Français de Londres.

As the main school in South Kensington expanded in the late 1950s, its location consolidated and name changed to Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle.

The private communal gardens at the centre of the Boltons