Victorian Era

Built in 1890 for William Anson, the John Anthony House is described by the National Register as “the most clear-cut and best-preserved example of a particular type of vernacular architecture in the Eastlake tradition in the city.”

Large country house. c1854-1868 by Benjamin Bucknall for William Leigh. Ashlar limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. High Victorian Gothic style. Built around small courtyard.

Public hall. 1867-1871. Designed by Captain Fowke; completed by Major-General H Y D Scott.

This country villa was the home of Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin and his family for 40 years. It was here that he composed On the Origin of Species.

This large and beautifully wooded Victorian cemetery on the northern outskirts of London is the resting place of George Eliot, Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, the family of Charles Dickens, and other notables.

Made of multicolored brick and lined with colorful mosaics, Keble's unique college chapel was built as part of the 19th-century Oxford Movement.