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Hockley Abbey, on today’s streets

Richard Ford’s folly near Soho, built around 1779–80 of black furnace slag to look like a medieval ruin, with the false date 1473 set in pebbles on the front. It was gone by about 1870.

A 3D model of Hockley Abbey, a small dark sham-Gothic house of furnace slag, placed among today’s streets in Hockley
Hockley Abbey — outline from Pigott Smith’s 1855 plan; a sham ruin of furnace slag with pointed windows, from Dent (1880) and Bowley (1842) (heights estimated)Landmarks standing todayBuildings standing on the site today (see-through)Buildings today (OpenStreetMap)
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