Dial House

L3 D4 - needed to go to Twickenham so when the rain cleared cycled there. Went down Church street , lots of queues outside butchers and the sweet shop; also long queues outside the fishmongers and butchers in King Street... disappointing to see people quite close to each other and some without masks. Passed Dial House which is near St Mary’s Church. This house was built by Thomas Twining( tea merchant) in 1726. The house takes its name from the large painted sundial on the front of the house. One of his daughters, Elizabeth, lived there until her death in 1889 when she bequeathed the house to the church. It became the vicarage and subsequently, in 2001, the official residence of the Bishop of Kensington.