page_title: Cale Street
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Cale Street / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: William Sutton Estate Two blocks on the William Sutton Estate between Cale Street and Ixworth Place
context_page_description: Cale Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs between Dovehouse Street in the west and the junction of Elystan Street and Elystan Place in the east. It originally formed the southern boundary of Chelsea Common. The street was laid out in 1836, and was called Bond Street at the western end and College Place at the eastern but was later renamed Cale Street in honour of Judith Cale, a benefactor to the parish.
context_section_description: St Wilfred's Convent once stood in gardens on the north side at the western end, opposite where the Royal Brompton Hospital is now on the south side.
  Also on the south side is St Luke's Church and gardens on the site of the former burial ground for Chelsea Old Church which is located further south near the Chelsea Embankment. The burial ground was consecrated in 1812 and had a 9-foot-high (2.7 m) wall and railings to protect against grave robbers. St Luke's was built between 1820 and 1824, over the vaults used by Chelsea Old Church, when the old church was felt to be too small for the population of the area. Its grounds were used for burials until 1857 before in 1881 they were converted to gardens. A new boundary for the church and part of the gardens was created using the gravestones from the burial ground. Today, the area to the north of the church adjacent to Cale Street is a recreation ground while the area to the south of the church adjacent to Britten Street is formal gardens.
  Sutton Dwellings, an estate of housing association properties built in 1913 is on the north side of Cale Street, and was threatened with redevelopment, until the local council declared it a Conservation Area.
  In the 1960s the fashion boutique Hung On You was at No. 22, run by the designer Michael Rainey and whose customers included the Beatles. The shop moved to Chelsea's King's Road in 1967.
  Tom's Kitchen was a restaurant at No. 27 run by Tom Aikens from November 2006 to January 2020.
caption: Two blocks of Sutton Dwellings between Cale Street and Ixworth Place, 2009
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