| Park Crescent | |
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 Park Crescent looking east | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| Town or city | Worthing |
| Country | England |
| Construction started | 1831 |
| Completed | 1833 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Amon Henry Wilds |
Park Crescent is an example of Georgian architecture in Worthing, England, designed in 1829 by Amon Henry Wilds, son of the architect Amon Wilds and constructed between 1831 and 1833. AH Wilds had previously worked on other large projects including the Kemp Town estate in nearby Brighton.
Arranged in a serpentine shape, the terrace overlooks thickly planted grounds of Amelia Park, in the manner of Bath.[1] It is built on a slight ridge close to what was in the 1830s the edge of the town by the boundary with the neighbouring parish of Heene and would have overlooked fields, with views extending to the parish churches of Tarring and Goring. There are two cottages ornés, originally called north and south Swiss Cottages, and now a hotel. It is likely that Wilds intended the 'alpine-style' cottages to be a discovery on walks into the woods of Amelia Park.[2] Park Crescent comprises 14 houses, each originally having three floors together with servants' quarters in the basement.
- ^ Nairn, Ian and Pevsner, Nikolaus(1965), "Sussex: Buildings of England" ISBN 0-14-071028-0
- ^ Conservation area appraisal by Worthing planners Archived October 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-03-29