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Walton House, Chelsea

  • Also Known As: International Institute for Psychical Research
  • English National Heritage: Walton House (Including Upper Walton House)

  • Type: Building
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Walton House (Including Upper Walton House) is a Grade II English Listed house in London, Greater London Authority, United Kingdom. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1885/00/00 Richard Norman Shaw Architect A five storey, yellow brick, house is built with red dressings. Details include moulded brick bands at 1st and 2nd floor sills, tiled roof, wood hood to entrances and two 5-light windows on return.
1938/02/25 Nandor Fodor Work After Nandor Fodor picks up Alma Fielding from at her home, the pair arrives at the International Institute for Psychical Research which occupies the first two stories of Walton House owned by Mary Dundas, a widow who lives on the upper levels.
1938/03/25 Alma Fielding Subject Alma Fielding meets with Nora Wydenbruck, her circle and Catherine Amy Dawson Scott at Walton House. Catherine Scott gives the mouse some biscuits.
1938/05/00 In the first week of May, supernatural horror writer, Marjorie Bowen, gives an evening talk at the International Institute for Psychical Research on ghost in "twilight tales"(fiction writing) and reality.
1938/05/10 Eileen J Garret, a medium, C V C Herbert of the Society for Psychical Research and Earnest Bennet, MP from Cardiff, attends a seance channeled by Alma Fielding at Walton House. Fielding produces a beetle.

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Particulars for Walton House, Chelsea:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Supernatural Seance

Data
English Listed Building List Entry Number: 1265524



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