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VANISHING LONDON

A SERIES OF DRAWINGS
Illustrating some of the Old Houses, etc, in London and Westminster,

BY

ROLAND W. PAUL.

1894.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
3, ARUNDEL STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.

Copyright — Entered at Stationers' Hall.

PREFACE.

The contents of the present work need but few words of introduction. So much has from
time to time been written on London, its history, and its buildings, that no attempt has been made
to give a detailed historical account of the district selected. The chief aim has been to bring
together in a concise and handy form a series of drawings of many of the old bits still remaining
in London streets that of necessity must disappear before long, and to record some that have lately
been pulled down, accompanied by such short descriptive notes as seemed necessary to give their
position and history where any existed. The materials of which many are built being chiefly wood
renders them peculiarly liable to destruction by fire, and the objectionable and dangerous custom
of covering many of these old houses with advertisement hoardings increases the risk both to them
and to the adjoining premises.
The Strand and Fleet Street, and their offshoots, still retain a very large number of old houses
of the 17th and i8th centuries. Cecil and Salisbury Streets have disappeared within the last year
or two, but there are still interesting examples in the Adelphi, Buckingham Street being the most
complete. Again, north of the churches of St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand are Clare
Market, Holywell and Wych Streets and Clement's and New Inn with many points of interest.
In Westminster perhaps the most typical streets are those south of Dean's Yard, between it and
Smith Square, where a large number of simple and effective examples of houses, doorways, and
ironwork still remain much in their old condition. The City has fared worse. With the
destruction of the remains of the house of Sir Paul Pindar in Bishopsgate Street Without, and the
houses on the south side of Great Saint Helen's, the last of the old City residences of importance
may be said to have disappeared. Crosby Hall, it is true, still remains, but in a much restored
condition, and there are now comparatively few houses left to show the character of the old houses
of the City streets.
In the short descriptive notes which precede the plates several references will be found to
other works treating of the historical side at greater length. The extracts are duly acknowledged
in their places.
Many deserve my thanks for help and facilities given me during the preparation of the
following pages. The ceilings from Sir Paul Pindar's house and Crosby Hall chambers were
measured from the originals now at South Kensington Museum, by the kind permission of the
authorities. The last of the plates (XL.) illustrating an old fireplace recently removed from the " Old
Palace," Bromley-by-Bow, although not strictly within the limits of the work, has been included on
account of the interest which the building has aroused. It is from a drawing made for me by
Mr. H. T. Bromley, as I had myself no opportunity of seeing the building before it was dismantled.
I need hardly add that any corrections or suggestions from those into whose hands the book
may come will be very gladly received. It makes no claim to be exhaustive, but it is hoped that
the collection of drawings here brought together may serve as a record of an interesting period in
the street architecture of London.
ROLAND W. PAUL.
3, Arundel Street, W.C, 1894.

LIST OF PLATES.

Plate I. — Emanuel Hospital, Westminster — The Chapel.
II II. — tt „ „ The Courtyard and Entrance (2).
,, III. — Panels.
„ IV. — Doorway — No. 9, Grosvenor Road.
,) V. — :FlREPLACE — No. 9, GrOSVENOR RoAD.
,1 VI. — The Strand, Nos. 417, 418.
,, VII. — The Strand, Nos. 413, 414.
„ VIII. — Two Doorways — Buckingham Street, Adelphi.
„ IX. — Buckingham Street, Adelphi, Nos. 10 and ii.
„ X. — The Strand, Nos. 164, 165.
,, XI. — The Strand, Nos. 166, 167.
„ XII. — Dysart House, Norfolk Street.
„ XIII. — Wych Street, Strand.
,, XIV. — Holywell Street, Strand.
„ XV. — Clement's Inn, The Garden House — North and East Elevations.
„ XVI. — ,, „ „ „ „ North-West View.
,, XVII. — Lincoln's Inn Fields, No. 54, and Gateposts of Lindsey House.
„ XVIII. — Houses in Strand, Chancery Lane, and Fetter Lane (3).
„ XIX. — The Rolls House and Chapel.
,, XX. — Lincoln's Inn — The Gateway.
„ XXI. — Lincoln's Inn, Old Square.
„ XXII. — Fleet Street, Nos. 184, 185.
„ XXIII. — Middle Temple Lane.
,, XXIV. — Fleet Street, No. 17 — Ceiling.
,, XXV. — Fleet Street, No. 17 — Ceiling and Fireplace.
„ XXVI. — The Temple, Lamb Building (2).
,, XXVII. — Great Queen Street, Nos. 55, 56.
,, XXVIII. — Doorway — Featherstone Buildings, Holborn. Old Bell Inn, Holborn.
XXIX.— Fetter Lane.
,, XXX. — Barnard's Inn Hall.
,, XXXI. — Sir Paul Pindar's House, Bishopsgate Street — Window.
,. XXXII. — „ ,, „ „ „ Ceiling.
,, XXXIII. — ,, ,, ,, ,, „ Details of Ceiling.
,, XXXIV. — Bishopsgate, Three Old Houses in.
„ XXXV.— Great St. Helen's, Nos. 8, 9, 10.
,, XXXVI. — Crosby Hall Chambers — Ceiling.
„ XXXVII.— Austin Friars, No. 10.
„ XXXVIII.— Aldgate, Nos. 6, 7.
„ XXXIX.— Panels.
„ XL. — Fireplace from the Palace, Bromley-by-Bow.

NOTES.

PLATES I., II. — Emanuel Hospital, Westminster,
The picturesque group of buildings known as Emanuel Hospital is situated on the west side
of Little James Street, Buckingham Gate, and built round three sides of a quadrangle, measuring
about 170 feet by 90 feet. The fourth side towards the road has a large iron gate in the centre and a
smaller one at each end next the gable end of the buildings. The whole is of red brick, one-storey
only in height, except at the angles, where there is an upper floor. Stone has been used for the
inscribed panels on the gables facing the street, the tops of the gate-posts adjoining, and for the
carved panel in the pediment of the chapel, with the Arms of the Corporation of London (see
Plate III.), and also for the coigns at the angles of the chapel, the windows, doorway, and plinth.
The Hospital was established pursuant to a will of Anne, Lady Dacre, widow of Gregory, the last
Lord Dacre of the South, towards the relief of aged people and bringing up of children in virtue and
good and laudable acts in the same Hospital. Charter of Incorporation dated 1600. Lord Dacre
died 25th September, 1594, and Lady Anne Dacre, his widow, 14th May, 1595, both being buried in
the old parish church of Chelsea. In 1623, the guardianship passed at the death ofthe last executors
to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London. — Wheatley and Cunningham, II., 15.
The present buildings date from the time of Queen Anne, when the hospital was re-built.
The Chapel, opposite the entrance from James Street, and occupying the centre of the west
side of the quadrangle, is shown in Plate I.,
and the arms in the pediment in Plate III.,
Fig. I. Plate II. shews one of the side
gates, and the adjoining gable against the
wall of which is a tablet, with the following
inscription : — " This is Emanuel Hospital of
the Charitable Foundation of the late LORD
and LADY DACRES, for the Maintenance
of Ten Poor Men, Ten Poor Women, and
Twenty Poor Children, under the Government
of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of LONDON. Anno 1821 : Resolved
that the Boys and Girls be increased to the
number of Twenty each, to be Educated and
Maintained in the Hospital. That a proper
School Room and a Dormitory over the same
for the Boys be erected. Anno 1844: Ten
additional Boys admitted. Anno 1845 : Ten
additional Girls admitted. Anno 1847, The
establishment now consists of sixty."

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with a large hood covering the two, supported on carved brackets, are shewn in the view of the
Courtyard, Plate II. The eaves cornice is also of wood.
For the arms of the City of London in the pediment of the Chapel, see Plate III.
After being long threatened with demolition, this picturesque fragment of Old Westminster
has just been pulled down (January, 1894). The Hospital had been vacant for some months.
PLATE in.— Panels.
In this plate, and also in Plate XXXIX., are given several examples of armorial tablets, panels,
and boundary stones, from the City and elsewhere. The example of the City arms is in stone, and
forms the pediment of the Chapel of Emanuel Hospital, Westminster (see Plate I.) The position
of the 'panel on the east, or Chancery Lane side of the gateway to Lincoln's Inn, is shewn in
Plate XX. The panel on the west side — now somewhat worn — is in the corresponding position
over the archway. The bands on pilasters ornamented with the rose and flem de lis alternately,
occur on some of the houses on the west side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, one of which is given in
Plate XVII. The boundary stone of St. Clement Danes' parish is from a house. No. 2, Sheffield
Street. Two efiective street tablets are given from Great James Street, Bedford Row, and Princes'
Court, Westminster, the latter now on a house in Princes' Street. The fragment of Early English
carving was found during the excavations made for the new buildings erected on the west side of
Westminster Hall, after the Law Courts had been removed.
PLATES IV., v.— No. 9, Grosvenor Road.
Of several houses in this street, and northward, in Millbank Street, towards the Houses of
Parliament, No. 9, now the offices of the London Road Car Company, is the largest and most
interesting. It is apparently a house of the latter part of the seventeenth century, and is nearly
opposite Lambeth Bridge. The windows have been modernized, and the whole front stuccoed
over, but the doorway (given in Plate IV.), with its fine hood, remains in a good state, and is one
of the best specimens of its kind now remaining in London. It is approached by a flight of steps,
with a good plain cast-iron railing. The hood of the doorway itself is semi-circular, with a
double-festoon of flowers in the centre, and two cherubs' heads and foliage in the lintel.
The brackets are excellent examples of their kind, and project about 2 feet. The doorway
is 4 feet wide and 10 feet high. The centre of the fanlight is arranged for a lamp, which
was probably hexagonal and projected both ways. The interior of the house, which was
one evidently of some importance, has some good panelling, a broad staircase, and a fireplace
with carved work in one of the rooms looking westward on the first floor. This fireplace
is given in Plate V.
No. 10, which at one time evidently formed part of the same house, has a fine room
on the ground floor, with paneUing and a carved fireplace. This house is now, however, used
as offices.

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The house, now known as Millbank House, must not be confused with Peterborough, known
also at various periods as Grosvenor and Belgrave House, which stood further south, and was the
last residence of importance in that direction.
" The Mill bank, a very long place, which beginneth by Lindsey House, or rather by the Old
Palace Yard, and runneth up into Peterborough House, which is the farthest House." —
Strype, B. 6, p. 66.
Peterborough House has been pulled down.
There is a considerable district between this and Dean's Yard, embracing Smith Square,
North Street, Barton Street, Cowley Street,
and Great College Street, where many of the
old doorways, some with projecting hoods and
ironwork, still remain. The example here
given from Great College Street is repeated
several times, and there are many others, some
very simple in detail, excellent specimens of
the style. In Smith Square, in the north-west
corner, are two doorways with good hoods, and
handsome wrought-iron area railings. There
is some more ironwork of the same period in
North Street and Cowley Street. In Marsham
Street, leading out of the Horseferry Road on
the north, are some doorways similar to those
in Smith Square, but apparently later in
date.

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PLATE VI. — Nos. 413, 414, Strand.
Two houses, both with good bay windows, of two storeys, one retaining its wrought-iron
balcony, a feature that will still be found in great variety in various parts of the Metropolis.
No. 414 has been unfortunately disfigured by the erection of a large advertisement hoarding ;
originally, it also had a balcony on the bay window. The shops are modern. The design and
detail of the bay of No. 413 is particularly effective, but it has lately been disfigured by the erection
of an electric lamp.

PLATE VIL— Nos. 416, 417, Strand.
One house only divides these from the two given on the former plate. The right-hand
example in the view retains its bay much in its original state. The other has been much modernized.
The chief feature of these two houses is a very fine eaves cornice carried round the entire
building, including the bays.

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Behind them is Heathcock Court, mentioned in Timbs' Curiosities of London, p. 703,
Ed. 1855. The whole front is of timber, with slate hung gables over. They are probably some of
the oldest of the wooden fronted houses now left.

PLATES VIII., IX. — Buckingham Street, Adelphi.
Of the numerous streets which lead from the Strand to the river — more properly speaking to
the Embankment Gardens — Buckingham Street retains the greatest number of its old houses.
The street dates from 1675, ^'^<I there is a picture at Hampton Court showing it as it existed in
1756, by W. James. It was named after George Villiers, second and last Duke of Buckingham
ofthe Villiers family (see 'Wheatley, I., 296). Two ofthe most interesting features in the street are
the two doorways, given in Plate VIIL, forming the entrances to two houses now numbered 17 and
18, on the east side near the lower or river end. Both doorways are of wood, and the capitals are
evidently from the same model ; in all probability they were put up about the same time. No. 17
is said to have been a house built for one of the Duchesses of Newcastle. On the first floor is a
good deal of panelling, a carved fireplace in the front room, and a boudoir or closet leading out of
the smaller room at the back. No. 18 is now — as is the case with most of the houses in this
street — used as offices, and has a much more elaborate doorway, with a flat coffered hood, supported
on two carved brackets of excellent design. Many of the mouldings and some of the carving has
been destroyed and obliterated by successive coats of paint. There is some bold ironwork on either
side of the doorway, and good cast terminals to the railings. No. 19, next door, has a lamp bracket,
but is not otherwise noteworthy. On the opposite, or west side of the street, are two houses (given
on Plate IX.) numbered 10 and 11, and evidently at one time residences of importance. No. 10 has
ironwork on either side of the doorway, a brick ground storey, and a wooden bay window
above, the full width ofthe house. No. 11, now called Buckingham Chambers, is a house with a
considerable frontage (only a part of it shews in the plate), the windows having ornamented
keystones. It is now covered with plaster, but is of course a brick house, probably with stone
dressings.
PLATES X., XL— Nos. 164-167, Strand.
Until the autumn of 1893, these houses formed the largest and most picturesque group of old
wooden fronts in the Strand. Nos. 166 and 167, however, have been destroyed, but will be found
represented in Plate XL, from a drawing made very shortly before their demolition. Nos. 164 and
165 (Plate X.) are still standing. They would seem to have formed a portion of Golden Buildings,
which lay behind them, and were pulled down some years ago. «' No. 165 " is spoken of by Timbs,
p. 697, as " Inghs's warehouse for Scot's Pills. Sold by J. Inglis, now Hving at the Golden
Unicorn over against ye May Pole in ye Strand."* Many of the windows of those now destroyed
had a considerable amount of carving round the architraves, giving the whole a very rich
appearance, although the carving itself was very much dilapidated. There were also the
remains of a rich eaves cornice, of the same design as that now remaining in No. 164.
* Timbs is here quoting an advertisement dated 1699,

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PLATE XIL— No. 13, Norfolk Street, Strand.
Pulled down in the summer of 1893, to make room for the new buildings now being erected on
the Norfolk estate. It was formerly the residence of Lord Dysart, but for some years previous to
its demolition had been the Dysart private hotel. The projecting bay window on the first floor was
a picturesque feature of the street, and had a good cornice. There was a good deal of panelling in
this room, and a fireplace in the angle of the room opposite the bay. Norfolk Street was built
c. 1682 {Wheatley, II. , 601). PLATE XIIL— Wych Street, Strand,
These are practically the last of the old houses in Wych Street, a thoroughfare which was at
one time full of ancient houses. There were other houses eastward, between the two in the left
hand of the drawing, Nos. 34 and 35, and what is now the " Rising Sun " tavern at the junction of
Wych and Holywell Streets. These are given amongst the photographs published by the Society
for Photographing Old London, to which the reader is referred.
The drawing has been taken from the entrance to New Inn. On the west side of this entrance
the ground floor of the Inn buildings has a good wooden cornice over the windows.
PLATE XIV,— Holywell Street, Strand.
The houses shewn in the plate are on the south side of the street, forming a picturesque group
with a good deal of variety in the treatment of the windows. All are of wood and plaster.
The Holy Well which gave the name to the street was not S. Clement's Well, but one which
was beneath the " Unity," late " Spotted Dog," tavern, just east of where the Opera Comique now
stands. There are two more old houses on the same side of Holywell Street, a little eastward of those
shewn in the drawing, with overhanging plaster storeys and gables, and a good cornice.

PLATES XV,, XVI. — The Garden House, Clement's Inn.
This interesting little house will, in all probability, shortly disappear, to make room for the
re-building of this portion of Clement's Inn, which has already commenced just north of it, and has
absorbed some of the garden from which the house derives its name, and in which was a fountain,
now removed to the Temple. It is a small building with a frontage eastward of 23 feet, and a north
frontage of 19 feet. The north wall, as will be seen by reference to the plan, is not quite
at right angles with the east front, and the west fagade thus measures slightly less than the
east — 21 feet 6 inches.
The whole is of red brick with coigns and moulded cornices, &c., of " rubbed " brick,
stone being introduced in the cills and architraves of the windows on first floor, and the

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arches of the bay windows and balustrade on the ground floor of the north front. The whole
of the exterior is very refined in design, and is an excellent example of its date. The in
terior has evidently been much
altered. A hall, with stair
case and a small sitting-room
are at present arranged on the
ground floor divided by a par
tition, which blocks one of the
side windows on the ground
floor of the east front. The
corresponding window has also
been blocked up, the centre only
remaining open. A modern
fireplace has been fixed in the
west wall near which is a

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shewing the general arrange
ment of the ground floor, and
some sketched details of the
moulded brickwork.
Plate XV. shews the east and north elevation, and a perspective view taken from the N.W. in
the garden of New Inn is given in plate XVI.

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PLATE XVIL— Lincoln's Inn Fields.
There are many old houses still left surrounding the great square of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the
most interesting being those on the west side, some of which are attributed to Inigo Jones. The
house numbered 54, standing partly over the arches leading to Sardinia Street, here given, is one of
two or three of the same design and date. On the pilasters are alternately a fieur de lis and a rose (for
Charles I. and his Queen). Some of these houses have been plastered over. They are, however,
of brick, with the bands, caps and bases of the pilasters in stone. One house in the extreme S.W.
corner of the square still remains much in its original state.
In the centre of the west side is a very fine house, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones for
Robert Bertie, first Earl of Lindsey, who was killed at Edgehill (Norman, Signs of London, p. 153).
It is now divided into two houses, numbered 59 and 60. It was at one time known as Ancaster
House. The most remarkable features, perhaps, are the two lofty gate posts which at present stand
at the street end of the boundary walls of the courtyard in front of the house. Between them is an
iron railing of more recent date, with an opening at either end for entrance and exit. According to
Hatton (New View of London, 1708, p. 627) there were originally six of these gate posts. He speaks
of Lindsey House as having " a strong beautiful court-gate, consisting of six fine spacious brick

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piers with curious ironwork between them, and on the piers are placed very large and beautiful
vases." Supposing this account to be correct, we must infer that there were three gates — a large
one possibly in the centre and a smaller one at either end. The hinges for the side gates still remain
in the piers, and there must thus have been two others besides those still standing. They measure
3 feet 7 inches square, and are about 22 feet in height, the main portion of the pier being in rubbed
brick with thin joints, and the plinth and upper cornice and vase of stone. They are by far the
finest specimens of gate posts in the Metropolis.
At the N.W. angle of the square is Powis or Newcastle House, a plain-looking brick building
with a very fine flight of steps and ironwork to the front entrance.
Fig. I is a view of the house over the entrance to Sardinia Street. On the left hand of this
street is the old chapel of SS. Anselm and Cecilia.
Fig. 2 shews the gate posts of Lindsey House.

PLATE XVIII. — Three Houses — Strand, Fetter Lane and Chancery Lane.
These three examples are given as specimens of the simpler forms of house of which there are
still several remaining in the district. All are of wood. The first, (Fig. i) is No. 273, Strand,
nearly opposite Messrs. W. H. Smith's oifices.
Fig. 2 is No. 94, Fetter, Lane, picturesque rather than architectural, but still retaining a portion
of its slightly curved shop front with a good cornice moulding.
Fig. 3 is No. 82, Chancery Lane, an old timber front, with a bay of three storeys over a narrow
shop front, surmounted by an open balustraded parapet. It is now closed and will, in all
probability, shortly disappear.
There are still one or two picturesque houses on the south side of the Strand east of St.
Clement's Church, and immediately opposite the Law Courts. One of these, No. 229, has curious
projecting upper storeys. A little westward is another house still retaining its wooden gable, and
of similar character originally to the two given in Plate XXII.

PLATE XIX.— Rolls House and Chapel.
The Rolls House was " the official residence of the Master of the Rolls, who also kept his court
here." " The Master's house was designed by Colin Campbell in 1717-1725 at a cost of ;^5,ooo, during
the mastership of Sir Joseph Jekyll. The first stone was laid Sept. 18, 1717." — (Wheatley and Cun
ningham, III., 166).
The new scheme for the extension of the Record Offices in Chancery Lane, now in process of
building, will eventually entail the destruction of the Rolls House, and the incorporation of the
Rolls Chapel in such a way that the views now given will not be obtainable. The simple dignity of

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the front of the Rolls House with its approach, steps and ironwork is well worth recording. On a wall
north of Rolls House is
a fine rain water pipe
head. In the windows
of the Rolls Chapel is
some fine stained glass
with armorial bearings.
The view of the old
chapel from the south
east, here given, was
originally published in
the Builder, for which
journal the drawing
of it was originally
made by the author.*
The fourteenth century
window, discovered a
short time ago, is here
shewn just west of the
turret at the S.E.
angle of the building.
In the interior, which
is very plain, are some interesting monuments of past Masters of the Rolls.
PLATE XX. — Gateway, Lincoln's Inn.
This picturesque weather-beaten gateway has more than once been threatened with demolition
or extensive restoration, and is certainly in a somewhat dilapidated condition. Two solid brick
towers pierced with windows flank the centre portion, which is set back from the front of the
towers, and is pierced by large and small four-centred arches. Over the former, on the east or
Chancery Lane side, is an armorial panel with the arms of Henry VIIL, Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and
Sir Thomas Lovell, to whose liberality its erection was largely due, and who was one of the
Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, and Treasurer of the Household of Henry VII. (N. & Q., Sth Series,
Ap. 2, 1892). Underneath is the date and inscription, Anno Doni. 15x8 (see Plate III., Fig. 3).
On the west, or Old Square, side is another panel with the initials I H, E.S., and date 1695,
inserted in a corresponding position over the crown ofthe large arch (see Plate IIL, Fig. 2).
The vaulting of this gateway has been destroyed.
PLATE XXI. — Old Square, or Gatehouse Court.
The drawing shews a portion of the south side, the south-east angle, and its junction with the
gateway already described. Cromwell's secretary, Thurloe, had chambers from November, 1646—

* Builder, May 27th, 1893.

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November, 1659, on ground floor of No. 24, afterwards moving to second and third floors of
No. 13, where he died.
The whole is of brick, and is one of the most picturesque portions of the Inn. The portion
north of the gateway was rebuilt some years ago, and at the time a fresco was discovered (fully
described in Builder, June 20, 1885, P- 883).
PLATE XXII.— Nos. 184, 185, Fleet Street.
Two houses of some considerable antiquity, which were destroyed in 1892, and are here given
from a drawing made shortly before their demoUtion. In No. 185, on the first floor, was found an
Old Stone Fireplace. Its lintel was ornamented with roses in sunk
panels, and dated apparently from the sixteenth century. The houses
escaped the Great Fire, being then 100 years old. Also from a
fire in 1730. Aubrey tells us that Drayton (his Polyolbion, dedicated
to Prince Henry) lived in the house next east end of Old St. Dunstan's
— presumably at 185. The houses were of brick, covered however
with plaster. The backs were mostly wooden, and very picturesque.
On first floor of No. 184 was some panelling, but the front of this
house was considerably modernized about twelve years ago by
the insertion of a window in place of a door in the top storey (front)
and the removal of the casements of window in bay. There was an
ornamental balcony rail on the top of bay in No. 185. The gateway
under 185 led to a court once known by the sign of the "Hen and
Chickens."

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PLATE XXUL— Middle Temple Lane.
A portion of Middle Temple Lane has recently (1893) been pulled down for rebuilding the
west side of Hare Court. The picturesque wooden buildings here shewn, are however higher up,
and stand immediately behind the fine brick and stone gateway from Fleet Street, dated 1684, and
designed by Sir Christopher Wren, who also built Temple Bar (1670-72), now removed and
re-erected as an entrance to the grounds of Sir Henry Meux's house, Theobald's, Waltham Cross.
On January 26, 1679, a fire destroyed a portion of Middle Temple Lane, including the library of
EHas Ashmole, the Antiquary (Wheatley and Cunningham).
The present buildings are entirely of wood and rough cast, and are good specimens of the
effective use of simple detail, with a large amount of repetition in its features. A sketch of this
appeared in the Illustrated London News, 1888.

PLATES XXIV,, XXV,— Ceiling No. 17, Fleet Street.
The house now No. 17, Fleet Street, standing partly at the side and partly over the entrance
to the Inner Temple, and erroneously called the Palace of Cardinal Wolsey, was built by James I., for

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Henry, Prince of Wales, as an office of the Duchy of Cornwall. And in the life of King Charles L,
1600-25, by E. Beresford Chancellor (i885), is a copy of a warrant dated " Fron: His Highness's
Council Chamber in Fleet Street," amongst the signatures being " O. Cromwell."
The front of the house has been much pulled about, but there still remain some panels between
the ground and first floor alternately ornamented with the Prince of Wales' feathers and conven
tional ornament. There are still in the interior also two staircases, apparently original, but the
most interesting portion of the house is what was undoubtedly the chief apartment, on the first floor,
facing the street. The room is nearly square, measuring E. to W. 23 feet, and N. to S. 20 feet, and
is 10 feet 6 inches in height. As at present existing it is evidently of two dates. Belonging
to the original work are the fine ceiling and the panelling agains\ the west wall of the room. The
panelling on the other three sides and the fireplace are of later date (see Plate XXV. for fireplace, which
io of wood and white marble). As will be seen by the plan of the ceiling (Plate XXIV.) the original
fireplace evidently projected considerably more than the present one, which leaves an irregular
plain space at the east end of the room. There are evidences on the north side of alterations and
additions, the row of oblong panels (one with a shield of arms now blazoned as sa within a
bordure or a chevron between three tuns (?) of the second) having no connection with the pattern of
the rest of the ceiling. Between the windows looking into Fleet Street and behind the present
front is the original front of the house, of which there are in all probability considerable remains.
It consists of a pilaster about eight inches in width, standing on a moulded base and cut out of a
large piece of oak. At the sides, a little distance from the pilaster, are mortices shewing where the
projecting bay windows formerly fitted. These bays, when the house or room was remodelled, seem to
have been removed, and the present windows in pairs, with deep sills, were substituted, the whole
front being brought slightly forward, and the original panels re-used.
The ceiling is probably the finest remaining in situ in London. Its general design is clearly
shewn in the plates. In the centre are the initials P.H. for Prince Henry, son of James I.,
and the plume of feathers and motto " Ich dien " on a scroll underneath. The ribs, panels and
spaces in the ceiling are filled with conventional foliage ornament It is now elaborately
coloured, but the ornament has been much obliterated by repeated coats of paint.
In Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, Vol. I., is an illustration of an old house in Shoe Lane
called Oldbourne Hall. A ceiling existed here and is also illustrated, and is remarkable as being
very similar in design to that first described over the gateway to the Temple. The example at
Oldbourne Hall is dated 1647, and ornamented " with the arms and initials of James I., his Queen,
Anne of Denmark, and of Charles, Prince of Wales, crowned, and surrounded by a garter." The
room, according to the scale on the drawing, measured about 22 feet by 15 feet, slightly smaller than
the room over the Temple gate.
PLATE XXVI.— Lamb Building, Temple.
This is a plain but dignified brick building of good proportion, situated immediately south of
the Temple Church. Its chief ornamental feature is the entrance doorway, approached by a flight

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of steps, with plain iron railings, and having over it a wooden hood supported on brackets with
lions' heads, and ornamented in the pediment with the Lamb and Flag.
The Cloisters facing Lamb Building were rebuilt after the Great Fire by Sir Christopher Wren.
A short time ago there was a report that it was intended to pull down both Lamb Building
and the Cloisters. PLATE XXVIL— House, Great Queen Street.
This fine old house is now the only one left in Great Queen Street of any architectural interest.
It is now numbered 55 and 56, and is used as offices. The design is of two storeys, the windows
divided by pilasters the full height of the house. The space between the first and second floor
windows is filled by a raised panel. With the exception of the cornice, which is of wood, coffered,
and with traces of considerable ornamentation, the whole is of brick, except that stone is used for
the caps and bases of the pilasters.
The design of this house, as in the case of those on the west side of Lincoln's Inn Fields
(Plate XVII.), is attributed to Inigo Jones, but is of a more elaborate character. There were
formerly several mansions of importance in this street (see Wheatley and Cunningham).
Recently a portion of the front, including some of the pilasters, has been barbarously covered with
cement, entirely ruining the general appearance of the building. There is a good staircase inside.
The house at one time was the residence of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see Memorable London
Houses, Wilmot Harrison, pp. 15, 47, 80).
In Parker Street, near by, Nos. 18 and 58, are two old wooden bay windows.
PLATE XXVIII.
The court now known as Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn, derives its name from a
certain Cuthbert Featherstone, gentleman usher and crier of the King's Bench, who died in 1615.
The doorway, here given, is repeated in most of the houses on both sides of the street, which
stands on the north side of High Holborn, slightly west of Gray's Inn. Many of the streets north
of this have good examples of doorways and ornamental fanlights. See Great Ormonde Street,
Great James Street, Chapel Street and Bedford Row. A panel against a house in Great James
Street is given in Plate III.
The Old Bell Inn, Holborn, is one of the last of the old galleried Inns. It stands east of
Furnival's Inn. On the front, facing Holborn, is a panel with the arms " of Fowler of Islington,
namely, az. on a chev. arg. between three herons or, as many crosses formee gules. They are
surmounted by an esquire's helmet, with a crest which seems to be an eagle's head, with a sprig of
some sort in its beak " (London Signs and Inscriptions, P. Norman., p. 144.)

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PLATE XXIX.— Fetter Lane.
The picturesque group of buildings here shewn, are on the west side of Fetter Lane, the square
doorway in the immediate left-hand corner of the plate being the side entrance to Barnard's Inn,
now closed. The houses are of wood and plaster, and will probably soon be pulled down. They
form a simple but very effective design, the otherwise flat frontage being pleasingly broken by the
projecting bays. PLATE XXX.— Barnard's Inn Hall.
Barnard's Inn, originally Mackworth's Inn, was temp. Henry VI., a messuage of Dr. John
Mackworth, Dean of Lincoln, and became an Inn of Chancery in the time of one Barnard. It
appertained, with Staple Inn (further west in Holborn) to Gray's Inn, and was a Law Student's
Inn early in the fifteenth century. The Hall, here illustrated, has often formed the subject of a
sketch. Its most picturesque features are the louvre on the ridge, the bold eaves cornice, and the
almost continuous row of windows on its north side. A view of the interior with its roof was
given in the Builder a few years ago.
A large portion of Barnard's Inn has recently been pulled down. It seems, however, likely
that the old Hall will be allowed to remain for the present.

PLATES XXXI., XXXII., XXXIII,— Sir Paul Pindar's House, Bishopsgate,
The mansion of Sir Paul Pindar, in Bishopsgate Street, mentioned in Wheatley and Cunningham,
I., 196, formerly 169, Bishopsgate Street Without, and one of the most interesting houses in London,
was pulled down in i8go, to make room for the extension of the station of the Great Eastern
Railway, for which purpose a large proportion of the west side of the street was also demolished.
Views of it in its old state will be found in Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, Vol. I. (a general view of
the front and a portion of the ceihng; also a view of the " Lodge ") ; in the Builder, Oct. nth, 1890
(an exterior view and interior of room on first floor); in Black and White, for Feb. 6th, 1891,
an exterior view by Mr. Holland Tringham ; and a view of the exterior in " English Etchings."
It also forms the subject of one of the photographs in the series published by the Society for
photographing old London.
Sir Paul Pindar is described in Wilkinson's book as "an eminent London merchant, consul to
Aleppo, Ambassador to Constantinople, and a public benefactor during the reign of James I."
{Lond, Illus., Vol. I.). He died in 1650, aged 84.
The chief feature of the front was the fine bay window, two storeys in height, ornamented in
its panels with various grotesques, and the arms of the City. It was presented by the Great
Eastern Railway Company to the South Kensington Museum, where it has been set up in the
Architectural Court, having had its glazing renewed. The ceiling given to the Museum at the
same time is now in several pieces, but will in time be put in position in the Museum. The room
being a square, the ceiling is symmetrical in its pattern, and consists of a centre panel with the arms

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of Sir Paul Pindar {az, a chev. (trg between 3 lions' heads erased ermine, crowned or) and four similar
panels in the corners of the room with elaborate circular ornaments decorated with representations
of pomegranates, oak, and other plants and fruits. The ribs throughout are also ornamented with
a repeating pattern of foliage, shewn in detail in Plate XXXIII.

PLATE XXXIV,— Old Houses, Bishopsgate.
Three houses of a simple type. Figs, i and 2 are in Bishopsgate Street, and numbered 84 and 82
respectively. No. 82 retains its weatherboard ed gable, and both have bays of wood, with slightly
carved cornices. Now that Sir Paul Pindar's house is destroyed, they are almost the only remains
of the old architecture of the street. The shops below are modernized. Nos. 89 and 91 are also
old houses, and Nos. 11 and 39 Norton Folgate retain their old shop fronts. Fig. 3 is a side view,
looking towards Great St. Helen's Church, of one of the oldest houses now remaining, namely
No. 10, Great St. Helen's. The front of this house is shewn in Plate XXXV, It is entirely of timber
and plaster, the upper storeys being carried on posts and brackets, and is said to be one of the
buildings that escaped the Great Fire.

PLATE XXXV.— Old Houses, Great St. Helen's.
The fine houses numbered 8 and 9, Great St. Helen's, were pulled down in 1892. They were
of brick with stone caps, bands and bases to the pilasters, and had some very good cornices and
mouldings in the former material. On the bands of the two centre pilasters were panels, one with
initials ij and the other the date 1646. It has been suggested that they were designed by Inigo
Jones, but were more likely by his pupil, Webb. It was said to have been the residence of Sir
John Lawrence, but Mr. P. Norman, in his interesting account of this mansion {London Signs and
Inscriptions, p. 200) shews that the initials refer to Sir John Lawrence's uncle, Adam Lawrence,
and his wife, Judith, who died in 1657 and 1650 respectively.
These houses were illustrated in the Builder, April 16, 1892, and in the Daily Graphic, April 7,
1892. A reproduction of a measured drawing of the front of the house is given in Mr. Norman's
book London Signs, pp. 201 and 204, and a very interesting detailed description.

PLATE XXXVI.— Ceiling, Crosby Hall Chambers.
Crosby Hall Chambers was known as 25, Bishopsgate Street Within, and was demolished in
1892. The ceiling, a fragment of which is now at the South Kensington Museum, and is given here,
was in the room on the first floor, looking towards a side passage, in which also was a fireplace
«' with the initials G.B. and the date 1633 on the centre panel " (Norman, Signs, p. 219).
In one of the panels of this ceiUng are the initials M.L. (see Plate). The site is now occupied
by the new premises of the Bank of Scotland.

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PLATE XXXVII.— Austin Friars.
This house, No. lo, situated at the N.E. angle ofthe old Dutch Church, is one of the last of
the old houses which remain. No. 21, which was an interesting house with a picturesque garden,
was pulled down a few years ago. The present house has a date 1704 on the rain water pipe
heads. There is a good eaves cornice and entrance, approached by a flight of steps, but like many
of the houses of this date, its effect depends rather on good proportions than on much orna
mentation.

PLATE

XXXVIII.— Nos. 6 and 7, Aldgate.
These houses, now a restaurant, formed part
of the " Saracen's Head" Tavern. They are of
wood and plaster, with long pilasters, square-
headed windows, and over all a balustrade. The
inn itself has disappeared, and the present building
is used as a restaurant.
There are several old houses of plain character
in Aldgate High Street.

PLATE XXXIX.— Panels.
Figures 1, 5, and 6 are now in the Guildhall
Museum, where are to be seen many interesting
fragments from the City. Fig. 2 is an effective
tablet on the house numbered 22 in Cloth Fair (the
arms are those of the Rich family, and are given
by Mr. Norman as gu. a chev. betw. 3 cross
crosslets, or.- — London Signs, etc.) The arms of
the Stationers' Company is over the entrance to
Stationers' School, in Bolt Court (not Stationers'
Court as given on the plate), nearly opposite
Bouverie Street, Fleet Street. Fig. 4 is a dated
tablet on the first floor of a house on the west
side of Walbrook. The panels. Fig. 7, are from
the recently destroyed houses in Great St. Helen's,
and their position on the bands of the two centre
pilasters is shewn in Plate XXXV.
An interesting article on London Street
Signs will be found in the Strand Magazine,
May, 1891, which is illustrated, and others will
be found referred to in Mr. Philip Norman's
book, already quoted, on London Signs and
Inscriptions,

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PLATE XL. — The Palace, Bromley-by-Bow,
This building, known as the " Palace," a short distance south of Bow Church, was pulled
down late in the autumn of 1893. The fireplace, which is here given from a measured drawing by
Mr. H. T. Bromley, has been removed. There was also a plaster ceiling with some considerable
ornament on it.
This example, although strictly out of the limits of this book, has been included, as the
demolition of the old Palace has caused a good deal of interest to be taken in it, and the chimney-
piece is in itself a fine example. The illustration on page 20 shews a portion of the wall panelling
in the same room as the fireplace given in the plate.

INDEX

Note. — Arabic numerals refer to pages of letterpress, Roman numerals to number of Plates,

Adam Lawrence, ig.
Adelphi, Buckingham Street, viii., ix„ lo.
Aleppo, Sir Paul Pindar at, i8.
Aldgate, " The Saracen's Head," xxxviii., 20.
Anselm and Cecilia, chapel of SS., 13.
Arms of: Charles Prince of Wales, 16.
City of London, iii., xxxi., xxxix., 7, 18, 20.
Fowler of Islington, 17.
Henry VIII., iii., 8.
James I. and his Queen, 16.
Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, iii., 14.
Lovell, Sir Thomas, iii., 14.
Pindar, Sir Paul, xxxii., xxxiii., ig.
Rich, xxxix., 20.
Royal, iii., xl., 8, 21.
Stationer's Company, xxxix., 20.
Bank of Scotland, ig.
Barnard's Inn, xxx., 18.
Barton Street, Westminster, 9.
Bedford Row, W.C, 17.
Bell, Old, Hotel, Holborn, 17.
Bishopsgate, Old Houses in, xxxi. -xxxvi., 18, ig.
Boundary Stone of S. Clement's, iii., 8.
Buckingham Chambers, ix., 10.
Buckingham Street, Adelphi, viii., ix., 10.
Building, Lamb, xxvi., 16.
Buildings, Featherstone, xxviii., 17.
Golden, 10.
Bromley-by-Bow, The Palace, xl., 21.
Cardinal 'Wolsey, 15.
Ceilings at : Bromley-by-Bow, The Palace, 21.
Crosby Hall Chambers, xxxvi., ig.
Fleet Street, No. 17, xxiv., xxv., 16.
Oldbourne Hall, 16.
Sir Paul Pindar's House, xxxii., xxxiii., 18, 19,
Chancery Lane Gateway, xx., 14.
House in, xviii., 13.
Rolls House and Chapel, xix., 13, 14.
Chapel of SS. Anselm and Cecilia, 13.
Almshouses, Westminster, i., 7, S.
Rolls, xix., 14.
Chapel Street, 17.
Charles I., i5.
City of London, arms of, iii., xxxi., xxxix., 7, 18, 20.
Clement's Inn, The Garden House, xv., xvi., 11, 12.

Cloth Fair, panel in, xxxix., 20.
Colin Campbell, architect, 13.
Constantinople, Sir Paul Pindar at, 18.
Cornwall, Office of the Duchy of, 16.
Court, Gatehouse, xxi., 14, 15.
Heathcock, 10.
Hen and Chickens, 15.
Cowley Street, Westminster, g.
Cromwell, 0., 16.
Crosby Hall Chambers, Ceiling at, xxxvi., 19.
Cuthbert Featherstone, 17.
Dacre, Lord and Lady, 7.
Almshouses, i., ii., iii., 7, 8.
Doorways at : Buckingham Street, Adelphi, viii., ix., 10.
Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, xxviii., 17.
Lamb Building, Temple, xxvi., 16.
Millbank House, iv., 8.
Westminster, 9.
Drayton, 15.
Duchess of Newcastle, House for, 10.
Duchy of Cornwall, office of, xxiv., xxv., 16.
Dysart, Lord, House of, xii., 11.
Earl of Lincoln, arms of, iii., 14.
„ Lindsey, 'house iov, 12.
Edgehill, Earl of Lindsey, killed at, 12.
Elias Ashmole, 15.
Emanuel Hospital, Westminster, i., ii., iii., 7, 8.
Featherstone Buildings, doorway, xxviii., 17.
Featherstone, Cuthbert, 17.
Fetter Lane, xxix., 18.
Fields, Lincoln's Inn. (See Li.icoln's Inn Fields.)
Fire, The Great, 15, 19.
Fireplaces at : Bromley-by-Bow, xl., 21.
Fleet Street, No. 17, xxv., 15.
Millbank House, v., 8.
Fountain, Clement's Inn, 11.
Fowler, arms of, 17.
Friars, Austin, xxxvii., 20.
Garden House, Clement's Inn, xv., xv ., 11, 12.
Gardener's Lane, panel from, xxxix., 20.
Gatehouse Court, xxi., 14.
Gateposts, Lindsey House, xvii., 12, 13.
Gateway, Lincoln's Inn, xx., xxi., panels on, iii., 14.
Golden Buildings, Strand, 10.
" Golden Unicorn," The, 10.

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Gray's Inn, 17.
Great College Street, 9.
Great Fire, The, 15, 19.
Great James Street, panel in, iii., 8, 17.
Great Ormonde Street, 17.
Great Queen Street, house in, xxvii., 17.
Great St. Helen's, houses in, xxxiv., xxxv., panels in, xxxix.,
Grosvenor House, 9. [ig, 20.
Guildhall Museum, xxxix., 20.
Hall, Crosby, Chambers, Ceiling, xxxvi., ig.
Hall, Oldbourne, Ceiling at, 16.
Hampton Court, Picture at, 10.
Heathcock Court, 10.
Helen's, Great. (See Great St. Helen's).
" Hen and Chickens," Court, 15.
Henry, Prince of Wales, 16.
Holywell Street, Strand, xiv., 11.
Horseferry Road, g.
House, Belgrave, g.
Grosvenor, g.
Lindsey, g, 12.
Millbank, iv. v., g.
Newcastle, 13.
Peterborough, g.
Powis, 13.
Rolls, xix., 13.
Inigo Jones, architect, xvii., xxvii., I2, 17, 19.
Inn, Barnard's, xxx., 18.
Clement's, xv., xvi., 11, 12.
Grey's, 17.
Lincoln's, xx., xxi., 14, 15.
Mackworth's, 18.
Jekyll, Sir Joseph, 13.
Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, arms of, iii., 14.
Lamb, Building Temple, xxvi., 16, 17.
Lawrence, Sir John, Adam, and Judith, 19.
Lincoln's Inn Fields, Gateway, xx., xxi., 14, 15.
Houses in, xvii., 12, 13.
Lindsey House Gateposts, xvii., 12.
Sardinia Street, xvii., 13.
Lindsey House, Westminster, g.
Lincoln's Inn Fields, xvii., 12.
Earl of Lindsey, 12.
Londina Illustrata, Wilkinson's, 16, 18.
London, arms of City of, iii. xxxi., xxxix., 7, 18, 20.
Lovell, Sir Thomas, arms of, iii., 14.
Mackworth Inn, 18.
Marsham Street, Westminster, g.
Maypole in the Strand, 10.
Meux, Sir Henry, 15.
Middle Temple Lane, xxiii., 15.
Millbank House, iv., v., 8, g.

Museum, South Kensington, xxxii., xxxiii., xxxvi., 18, ig.
Guildhall, xxxix., 20.
Newcastle House, 13.
Newcastle, Duchess of, 10.
Norfolk Street, Strand, xii., 11.
North Street, Westminster, g.
Office ofthe Duchy of Cornwall, 15, 16.
Old Bell Hotel, Holborn, xxviii., 17.
O. Cromwell, 16.
Oldbourne Hall, Ceiling at, i6.
Old Square, xxi., 14, 15.
Panels, iii., xxxix., 8, 20.
Parish Boundary Stone, iii., 8.
Pindar, Sir Paul, arms of, xxxii., xxxiii., ig.
Powis House, 13.
Prince of Wales, Henry, xxiv. ; Charles, 16.
Queen Street, Great, xxvii., 17.
Rich, arms of. Cloth Fair, xxxix., 20.
" Rising Sun " Tavern, 11.
Rolls House and Chapel, xix., 13, 14.
Row, Bedford, 17.
Royal Arms, iii., xl., 8, 21.
Saint Clement's Well, 11.
Boundary Stone, iii., 8.
SS. Anselm and Cecilia, Chapel of, 13,
Sardinia Street, xvii., 12, 13.
Scotland, Bank of, 19.
Sheffield Street, panel in, iii., 8.
Sir Christopher 'Wren, 15.
Henry Meux, 15.
Joseph Jekyll, 13.
John Lawrence, ig.
Paul Pindar, 18, ig.
Thomas Lovell, 14.
Smith's Square, Westminster, g.
South Kensington Museum, xxxii., xxxiii., xxxvi., 18, ig.
Stationer's Company, arms of, xxxix., 20.
Strand, Old Houses in, vi., vii., x., xi., xiii., xiv., xviii.
Norfolk Street, xii.
Temple, The, xxiii. — xxvi., 15, 16.
Temple Bar, 15.
Theobalds, Waltham Cross, 15.
Thomas Lovell, Sir, 14.
Timbs, Curiosities of London, 10.
Walbrook, panel in, xxxix,; 20.
Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, 16, 18,
Westminster, Emanuel Hospital, i., ii., iii., 7, 8.
Millbank House, iv., v., 8, g.
Houses and Doorways in, 9.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 15.
Wych Street, Strand, xiii., 11,

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