NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, circ. 1560–1570 (AGAS)
PURSE FIELD, circ. 1609
NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, 1658. (FAITHORNE AND NEWCOURT)
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No. 211, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT
No. 181, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT
No. 172, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT
No. 1, SARDINIA STREET
No. 18, PARKER STREET
No. 2 GREAT QUEEN STREET. MAHOGANY STAIRCASE.
GENERAL BALUSTRADING.
(FROM SECOND TO THIRD FLOOR).
Nos. 55 and 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET IN 1846
HOUSE OF THE SARDINIA AMBASSADOR, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS
Nos. 55 & 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET, ELEVATION.
Nos. 55–56, GREAT QUEEN STREET, (MAY, 1906)
No. 55, GREAT QUEEN STREET, STAIRCASE
ELEVATION IN 1779
FREEMASONS’ HALL, PLAN OF PREMISES BEFORE 1779
FREEMASONS’ HALL IN 1811
FREEMASONS’ HALL, FAÇADE
FREEMASONS’ HALL, ELEVATION OF NORTH END OF TEMPLE IN 1775
FREEMASONS’ HALL, THE TEMPLE, LOOKING SOUTH
FREEMASONS’ HALL, SIR J. SOANE’S DESIGN FOR NEW MASONIC HALL (1828)
FREEMASONS’ HALL. GRAND STAIRCASE
VESTIBULE TO TEMPLE SHOWING MOSAIC PAVING
MARKMASONS’ HALL, CHIMNEYPIECE IN BOARD ROOM
MARKMASONS’ HALL, CEILING IN BOARD ROOM
MARKMASONS’ HALL, CEILING IN GRAND SECRETARY’S ROOM
GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL
GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL, INTERIOR
LITTLE WILD STREET, VIEW LOOKING NORTH-EAST (1906)
No. 32, BETTERTON STREET, ENTRANCE DOORCASE
“QUEEN ANNE’S BATH,” No. 25, ENDELL STREET
THE BOWL BREWERY IN 1846
SEVEN DIALS COLUMN AT WEYBRIDGE
LITTLE EARL STREET, LOOKING EAST
Nos. 14 to 16, NEW COMPTON STREET, SHOP FRONTS
St. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. WEST FRONT.
St. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. CROSS SECTION.
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-WEST
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-EAST
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, INTERIOR, LOOKING EAST, 1753
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, INTERIOR, LOOKING WEST
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, COLUMNS AND CEILING
ALTARPIECE
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, OAK FRAME WITH PICTURE
PAINTED GLASS PANEL, PROBABLY FROM FORMER CHURCH
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, OAK PANEL IN LICH GATE
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, VESTRY
Nos. 10 and 11, DENMARK STREET
DENMARK PASSAGE, BLACKSMITH’S FORGE
BEDFORD SQUARE, SOUTH SIDE
No. 1 BEDFORD SQUARE.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN.
No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, FRONT VIEW
ENTRANCE HALL, LOOKING SOUTH
ENTRANCE HALL, SHOWING STAIRCASE, No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE
No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING IN ENTRANCE HALL
No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEY BREAST, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE
No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE, LANTERN OVER STAIRCASE
No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
ON CHIMNEY BREAST, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
ON CHIMNEY BREAST, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 9, BEDFORD SQUARE, PLASTER PLAQUES OVER DOOR, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 9, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 10, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 11, BEDFORD SQUARE, EXTERIOR
No. 11, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 13, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 14, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 15, BEDFORD SQUARE, ENTRANCE DOORWAY
No. 8, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 23, BEDFORD SQUARE, DOORS AND DOORCASE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
CHIMNEY BREAST
ALCOVE
No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR,
No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE
No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
DETAIL OF CENTRAL PANEL
No. 28, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 30, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 31, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE, SCREEN IN HALL
PANEL OF CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
DETAIL OF CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE.
CEILING, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE.
No. 40, BEDFORD SQUARE, PLASTER PLAQUE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 40, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR No. 41, BEDFORD SQUARE
No. 44, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
Nos. 46–47, BEDFORD SQUARE, EXTERIOR
CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 46, BEDFORD SQUARE
CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 47 BEDFORD SQUARE.
CEILING OVER STAIRCASE
CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 47, BEDFORD SQUARE
No. 47, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 48, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 48, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 50, BEDFORD SQUARE, FANLIGHT IN ENTRANCE HALL
No. 51, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 68, GOWER STREET, DOORCASE
No. 84, GOWER STREET, DOORCASE
CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR HOUSE IN REAR OF No. 196, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
EXTERIOR
1. Survey of London, Vol. III., p. xviii.
2. “Exinde secundum quod via extra idem gardinum protenditur usque ad metas dividentes Mersland et parochiam S. Ægidii.”
3. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. xvi.
4. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 37 Henry VIII., Mich.
5. British Museum Addl. MS., Charters, 15636.
6. Namely, reckoning west to east: (i.) Star; (ii.) unnamed house of John Bishop; (iii.) Sun and Dolphin; (iv.) Gridiron (easternmost house in St. Giles); (v.) Eagle and Child; (vi.) Cock and Coffin; (vii.) unnamed house in occupation of Thos. Fisher. (Close Rolls, (a) 1652, Alexander Goddard, etc., and Philip Cotham; (b) 1652, Alexander Goddard, etc., and Jonathan Read; (c) 13 Chas. II., Samuel Bishopp and William Rymes).
7. Sale by Robert Harris to John Coke (Land Revenue Enrolments and Grants, vol. 311, p. 204.)
8. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 3.
9. British Museum MS. Claudius E VI, 218b–219.
10. Grant to Thos. Ellys, 22 Henry VIII (Land Revenue Miscellaneous Books, No. 62); grant to Thomas Bochier (Patent Roll, 36 Henry VIII. (745)).
11. Lease of 21st July, 8 Chas. I., by Henry Hurlestone to John Allen and Thomas Clements (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges 5–105,—Suit of John King); Close Roll, 6 Chas. I. (2853)—Indenture between Wm. Newton and Anthony Bailey and John Johnson.
12. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), pp. 3–4.
13. Certain properties, some of which include houses, are mentioned as extending from Holborn on the north to Fickett’s Field on the south, but some, at least, of these may have been to the west of Little Turnstile. The records in question, when dateable, may be referred to the time of Henry III. or Edward I.
14. Parliamentary Survey (Augmentation Office), No. 25.
15. It was afterwards occupied by Chamberlain’s Stable (Survey of Crown Lands) and this formed the eastern boundary of a piece of ground, 21 feet in width “abutting upon the footeway leading from Master Newman’s building [west portion of north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields] to the Little Turnstile on the west,” purchased by John Weston [Whetstone] from Edmond Gregory in 1661, (Close Roll, 13 Chas. II. (4087).)
16. Close Roll, 2 Elizabeth (566).
17. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, II. Series, Vol. 149 (74).
18. Close Roll, 18 Elizabeth (990).
19. Burrard Cranigh, M.D., by his will proved 21st November, 1578, left his lands, etc., in Holborn to be sold to pay his debts and legacies (Somerset House Wills, Langley, 41).
20. Patent Roll, 20th July, 18 Elizabeth (1144).
21. Close Roll, 18 Elizabeth (990).
22. Close Roll, 18 Elizabeth (994).
23. Close Roll, 31 Elizabeth (1318).
24. Close Roll, 21 Charles II. (4270).
25. Blott’s Blemundsbury, p. 201.
26. Close Roll, 33 Elizabeth (1375).
27. Daughter of Sir Nicolas Harvey, and widow of George Carew, dean of Windsor, who died in June, 1583, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields (Dictionary of National Biography).
28. No doubt the same afterwards occupied by Sir William and Lady Segar, and Lord Bothwell (see plan of 1658 in Black Books of Lincoln’s Inn, Vol, II.) The easternmost portion of the northern boundary of Purse Field is described as “the late garden wall of Sir William Seager, Knt.” in the grant of the field to Newton in 1638 (Patent Roll, 13 Charles I. (2775)), and as “the garden of Bothwell House” in the sale of that part of the field in 1653 (Close Roll, 1653 (3715))—(Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman).
29. It is no doubt this intermixture of gardens and houses that caused the peculiar shape of Partridge Alley, seen on the map accompanying Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5), and better still on Hollar’s Plan of 1658 (Plate 3).
30. It is strange, however, that her will (Somerset House Wills, Hayes, 61) bequeathing her property to her son, Sir George Carew, only mentions “all such leases as are in my possession, as inter alia Savoy, St. Giles.”
31. Close Roll, 16 Charles I. (3228).
32. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges XX, 45. Suit of Henry Harwell.
33. Chancery Decree Roll, 1922. Suit of William Duckett and Hugh Speaks against Henry Harwell, George Smithson, Daniel Thelwall and William Byerly.