| 词条 | Katherine Low Settlement |
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The Katherine Low Settlement is a charity founded in 1924 as part of the settlement movement. It is now a listed building and provider of charitable services to the local community in Battersea, South-West London. HistoryKatherine Mackay Low was born in Georgia, USA on July 9th 1855. Her parents were British, and when her mother died in 1863, her father, a prosperous merchant and banker, brought his family back to England and settled in Leamington. When he died, the family came to London, and Katherine devoted herself to the care of the less fortunate. When she died, on January 2nd, 1923, her many friends decided to create a memorial to her which would also further the kind of service to which she had devoted herself. [1] Battersea at the beginning of the 20th century was an industrial and poor part of London, and the area around Orville Road, Green Lane and Battersea High Street was particularly deprived. In 1899 Charles Booth's survey found Orville Road occupied by ‘thieves, prostitutes, cadgers, loafers', the few decent residents being men with large families driven there ‘in despair of getting rooms elsewhere’.[2][3]It soon attracted the attention of social workers, based at Canon Erskine Clarke’s clergy house, the Cedars, and from 1906 in the new Cedars Club or Institute adjoining. The mission there foundered after the First World War, when ill-health forced the retirement of its principal, Nesta Lloyd, but in 1921 she passed the baton to a Christ's College, Cambridge initiative, Christ’s College Boys’ Club, and followed this up in 1923 by introducing the all-female Katherine Low Settlement to the club as its tenant at the Cedars. Katherine Low's friends raised the funds and on May 17th, 1924, HRH the Duchess of York (later Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) came to Battersea and declared open the Katherine Low Settlement.[4][5] Katherine Low Settlement TodayKLS is now a multi-purpose charity and community centre. The centre supports after school projects and youth club for young people with learning difficulties. For older people there are pensioners lunch club and health group, mental health drop-in and a support group for carers of people with long term mental health problems. Other supported causes include the young carer's project which offers respite to young people who are caring (often alone) for a parent with disability. KLS plays hostto Refugee and asylum seekers home school support project and Sure Start for families with children aged under 4. [6] Listed Building StatusKatherine Low Settlement is Grade 2 Listed by English Heritage. The building is described as: A symmetrical house of the first third of the 18th century, 5 bays wide, of 3 storeys and of brown brick with stone dressings. It is quoined. On the ground floor the door is recessed behind a surround of Doric piers supporting frieze and cornice. On all floors the windows have shallow cambered heads. The first floor has a cillband. There is a crowning entablature. The stacks have oversailing courses. A single-storey extension with frontage to the street is similarly detailed with one blind and one glazed window and an offset entrance bay finished with a separate entablature. Listing does not include late 19th-century extension. [7]References1. ^http://www.stantononthewoldsparishcouncil.gov.uk/the%20Robertsons%20of%20Stanton.htm 2. ^http://hawkley.ctie.org.uk/History/development-Battersea.htm The Development of Battersea 3. ^http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/research/buildings/survey-of-london/battersea/volumes/#50 English Heritage 4. ^http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/research/buildings/survey-of-london/battersea/volumes/#50 English Heritage 5. ^Papers collated by Historian Sean Creighton 6. ^http://www.klsettlement.org.uk 7. ^http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-206982-katherine-low-settlement-greater-london- British Listed Buildings External linksListing on British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres (BASSAC) website{{coord|51.4720|-0.1737|type:landmark_region:GB-WND|display=title}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Katherine Low Settlement}} 5 : 1924 establishments in England|Organizations established in 1924|London Borough of Wandsworth|Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Wandsworth|Battersea |
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