Prima Road runs from Clapham Road to Brixton Road and faces St Mark’s Church.
Prima Road was laid out on land belonging a banker, John Wright. Wright granted several building leases of plots fronting Clapham and Brixton Roads.
The Effra river flowed across the northern part of Prima Road making the area boggy. The Effra was built over between 1837 and 1857 and St Marks’s paid £322 towards the costs. The raised banks of the Oval cricket ground were built with earth excavated during the building over of the Effra.
Prima Road was originally called both Church Row and Church Street and was renamed in 1912.
Prima Road runs from Clapham Road to Brixton Road and faces St Mark’s Church.
