Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Feltham (United Kingdom). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Church of St Mary, Eel Pie Island Museum, and Kilmorey Mausoleum. Also, be sure to include St Francis De Sales in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Feltham (England).
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Church of St Mary
Building. The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanwell, is a Church of England parish church in the village of Stanwell, Surrey. It dates to the 12th-century and is a grade I listed building. It has Norman and Gothic architectural elements including a 14th-century spire.[1]
Address: Church Approach, TW19 7JS Staines
Eel Pie Island Museum
Eel Pie Island Museum is a volunteer-run museum on Richmond Road in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It opened in February 2018 and tells the story of Eel Pie Island, including its historic boatyards, its contribution to the development of the popular music scene in the 1960s, and the life of the wind-up radio inventor, Trevor Baylis, who was a resident of the island. The museum's founder and curator is Michele Whitby.[2]
Kilmorey Mausoleum
Historical landmark in Twickenham, England. The Kilmorey Mausoleum, in St Margarets in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a Grade II* listed mausoleum in the style of an ancient Egyptian monument and has been described as a "fine example of an Egyptian-style mausoleum, with an unusually good interior". Designed by Henry Edward Kendall Jr. and built, at a cost of £30,000, in pink and grey granite with a bronze door, it was commissioned in the 1850s by the 2nd Earl of Kilmorey and contains the bodies of the Earl and his mistress, Priscilla Anne Hoste.
Priscilla died of heart disease on 21 October 1854, and she was buried in the mausoleum, with the inscription "Priscilla, the beloved of Francis Jack, Earl of Kilmorey".
When Kilmorey himself died in June 1880, aged 92, he was buried beside her in the mausoleum underneath a bas-relief in white marble showing the dying Priscilla on a couch surrounded by her lover and ten-year-old son Charles (b.1844). The bas-relief was carved in Rome by portrait sculptor Lawrence Macdonald.[3]
St Francis De Sales
The Church of St Francis de Sales is a Roman Catholic church in Hampton Hill, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is the parish church for the parish of Hampton Hill and Upper Teddington in the Upper Thames Deanery of the Diocese of Westminster.
The parish was formed in 1920 and the original church completed in 1928. The current church, constructed in 1966, was designed by Burles, Newton & Partners, who also completed the nave at St Aidan's Roman Catholic Church, Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It was consecrated on 18 December 1976.
The parsish priest is Father Wojciech Stachyra of the Society of Christ. Mass is held every morning and also on Saturday and Sunday evenings.[4]
Temperate House
The Temperate House, opened in 1862, is a Grade I-listed showhouse for the largest plants in Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. Rectangular, with pitched roofs, its pillars support wrought-iron ribs. Decimus Burton and Irish engineer, Richard Turner the designers, gave the House a mix of decorative motifs, finials, pediments, acanthus leaf capitals, Coade stone urns and statues. According to Greg Redwood, Kew's head of glasshouses, "The effect is similar to the contemporary iron pier pavilions of Eugenius Birch."
It was positioned to be the first feature visitors saw as they entered the gates with the anticipated coming of the first railway station at Kew expected to be at the end of the adjacent avenue. However, Kew Gardens rail station was built 500 yards to the north, leaving the glasshouse "somewhat stranded in the landscape".
In 2011 Kew launched a £15m public appeal to address necessary repairs to the Temperate House. An early exercise in cast- and wrought-iron and glass construction, the building is structurally sound but the Victorians hid utilitarian features like drainpipes inside the stone columns. Water round the edge of the building led to rust on the iron to push against the masonry which was falling away. Decorative features made of wood were rotting. It last underwent a major restoration in the early 1980s. The building was restored during 2014–15 by Donald Insall Associates, based on their conservation management plan.
There is a viewing gallery in the central section from which visitors are able to look down on that part of the collection. It was re-opened to the public in May 2018.
Area: 5700.0 m2[5]
Twickenham Methodist Church
Church in Twickenham, England. Twickenham Methodist Church is a former Methodist church on Queens Road, Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It closed for worship in December 2016.[6]
Address: Queen's Road, Feltham (Richmond upon Thames)
Twickenham Cemetery
Cemetery in Twickenham, England. Twickenham Cemetery is a cemetery at Hospital Bridge Road, Whitton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was established in 1868 and was expanded in the 1880s when the local parish churchyards were closed to new burials.[7]
Marble Hill Park
Park in Twickenham, England. Marble Hill Park is an area of 66 acres of parkland in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is an English Heritage site that surrounds Marble Hill House, a Palladian villa originally built for Henrietta Howard, the mistress of King George II in 1724–29.
From 2004 to 2006 the park was a venue for open-air music events organised by the Jazz Cafe. On 26 August 2006, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their Face to Face Tour supporting their album Face to Face.
The park is Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
In 2015–16 Historic England carried out a programme of research into the development of the park, including examining the early and mid 18th-century garden designs.[8]
Pope's Urn
Pope's Urn, on Champion's Wharf at Twickenham riverside in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a contemporary piece of public art inspired by the poetry of 18th-century Twickenham resident Alexander Pope, who is buried in the parish church that overlooks the wharf. It consists of a stylised urn on a pedestal, both made in corten steel and standing just over eight-foot high, surrounded by wooden benches inscribed with aphorisms written by Pope. It was commissioned to celebrate the 2015 Rugby World Cup, for which Twickenham Stadium was one of the venues, and was opened in a ceremony on 21 September 2015.
Pope's Urn was the initiative of Twickenham resident Graham Henderson as public art consultant for the London-based arts charity Poet in the City. Henderson conceived the project and worked in partnership with Richmond upon Thames Council, and the architectural design practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, to design, build and install it. It was unveiled by Lord True, Leader of Richmond Council, in a ceremony which included readings from Pope's works by the actor John Hannah, who is a local resident, and by the actress Dame Harriet Walter.
The sculpture is based on drawings that have survived of an urn designed by Alexander Pope for a friend's garden at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire. The original urn no longer exists.[9]
Paddington Arm
The Paddington Canal or Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal is a 13+1⁄2-mile canal to Paddington in central London, England. It runs from the west of the capital at Bull's Bridge in Hayes. Little Venice — its only junction — is with the Regent's Canal, London that runs to Limehouse Basin to the east. The arm and the two canals it links are fed by water by the Brent Reservoir. The Paddington Arm is part of a long pound that stretches for nearly thirty miles.[10]
All Souls
All Souls, St Margarets, is a Church of England church on Northcote Road in St Margarets in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its vicar is Joe Sellers. Services are held on Sundays at 10am and 6pm. Communion followed by lunch is held on the first Monday of the month at 12 noon. The style of worship is Open Evangelical.[11]
Address: Northcote Road, Feltham (Richmond upon Thames)