Chapter 69

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PLATE 1

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS,circ.1560–1570 (AGAS)

PLATE 2

PURSE FIELD,circ.1609

PLATE 3

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS,circ.1658 (HOLLAR)[Click image for larger version.]

PLATE 4

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, 1658. (FAITHORNE AND NEWCOURT)[Click image for larger version.]

PLATE 5

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS,circ.1720 (STRYPE)[Click image for larger version.]

PLATE 6

_A Plan of the Parish of S^t. Giles and S^t. George’s Bloomsbury by Hewett._[Click image for larger version.]

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PLATE 7

N^O. 3 GATE STREET. JOINERY DETAILS ON FIRST FLOOR.

PLATE 8

No. 211, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT

PLATE 9

No. 181, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT

PLATE 10

No. 172, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT

PLATE 11

No. 1, SARDINIA STREET

No. 18, PARKER STREET

PLATE 12

No. 2 GREAT QUEEN STREET. MAHOGANY STAIRCASE.

GENERAL BALUSTRADING.(FROM SECOND TO THIRD FLOOR).

PLATE 13

MAHOGANY STAIRCASE N^O. 2 G^T. QUEEN STREET W.C.

PLATE 14

ENTRANCE DOORCASES. N^OS. 27 and 28 GREAT QUEEN STREET

PLATE 15

LEAD RAINWATER HEADS AND CISTERNS. CARVED DEAL MANTEL SHELF, N^O. 16 LITTLE WILD STREET.

PLATE 16

Nos. 55 and 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET IN 1846

HOUSE OF THE SARDINIA AMBASSADOR, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS

PLATE 17

N^os. 55–56 GREAT QUEEN STREET.

PLATE 18

Nos. 55 & 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET, ELEVATION.

PLATE 19

Nos. 55–56, GREAT QUEEN STREET, (MAY, 1906)

PLATE 20

No. 55, GREAT QUEEN STREET, STAIRCASE

PLATE 21

N^os. 55–56 GREAT QUEEN STREET. DETAILS OF DEAL STAIRCASE.

PLATE 22

ELEVATION IN 1779

FREEMASONS’ HALL, PLAN OF PREMISES BEFORE 1779

PLATE 23

FREEMASONS’ HALL IN 1811

PLATE 24

FREEMASONS’ HALL, FAÇADE

PLATE 25

FREEMASONS’ HALL, ELEVATION OF NORTH END OF TEMPLE IN 1775

PLATE 26

FREEMASONS’ HALL, THE TEMPLE, LOOKING SOUTH

PLATE 27

FREEMASONS’ HALL, SIR J. SOANE’S DESIGN FOR NEW MASONIC HALL (1828)

PLATE 28

FREEMASONS’ HALL. GRAND STAIRCASE

VESTIBULE TO TEMPLE SHOWING MOSAIC PAVING

PLATE 29

MARKMASONS’ HALL, CHIMNEYPIECE IN BOARD ROOM

PLATE 30

MARKMASONS’ HALL, CEILING IN BOARD ROOM

PLATE 31

MARKMASONS’ HALL, CEILING IN GRAND SECRETARY’S ROOM

PLATE 32

GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL

PLATE 33

GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL, INTERIOR

PLATE 34

LITTLE WILD STREET, VIEW LOOKING NORTH-EAST (1906)

PLATE 35

DEAL DOORCASE. N^o. 24 BETTERTON ST.

PLATE 36

No. 32, BETTERTON STREET, ENTRANCE DOORCASE

PLATE 37

“QUEEN ANNE’S BATH,” No. 25, ENDELL STREET

PLATE 38

THE BOWL BREWERY IN 1846

PLATE 39

PLAN OF PROPOSED SETTING OUT OF SEVEN DIALS 1691

PLATE 40

SEVEN DIALS COLUMN AT WEYBRIDGE

PLATE 41

LITTLE EARL STREET, LOOKING EAST

PLATE 42

Nos. 14 to 16, NEW COMPTON STREET, SHOP FRONTS

PLATE 43

PARISH CHURCH OF S^T. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. GROUND PLAN

PLATE 44

PARISH CHURCH OF S^T. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. PLAN OF CEILING

PLATE 45

St. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. WEST FRONT.

PLATE 46

St. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. CROSS SECTION.

PLATE 47

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-WEST

PLATE 48

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-EAST

PLATE 49

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, INTERIOR, LOOKING EAST, 1753

PLATE 50

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, INTERIOR, LOOKING WEST

PLATE 51

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, COLUMNS AND CEILING

ALTARPIECE

PLATE 52

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, OAK FRAME WITH PICTURE

PAINTED GLASS PANEL, PROBABLY FROM FORMER CHURCH

PLATE 53

LICH GATE TO CHURCHYARD S^t. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS.

PLATE 54

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, OAK PANEL IN LICH GATE

PLATE 55

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, VESTRY

PLATE 56

N^O. 5 DENMARK STREET. DETAILS OF STAIRCASE.

PLATE 57

DEAL DOORCASE N^O. 7 DENMARK ST.

PLATE 58

N^O. 7 DENMARK STREET. DETAILS OF DEAL STAIRCASE.

PLATE 59

Nos. 10 and 11, DENMARK STREET

PLATE 60

DENMARK PASSAGE, BLACKSMITH’S FORGE

PLATE 61

BEDFORD SQUARE, SOUTH SIDE

PLATE 62

No. 1 BEDFORD SQUARE.GROUND FLOOR PLAN.FIRST FLOOR PLAN.

PLATE 63

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, FRONT VIEW

PLATE 64

ENTRANCE DOORWAY TO N^O. 1 BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 65

ENTRANCE HALL, LOOKING SOUTH

ENTRANCE HALL, SHOWING STAIRCASE,No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 66

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING IN ENTRANCE HALL

PLATE 67

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEY BREAST, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 68

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 69

No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 70

No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE, LANTERN OVER STAIRCASE

PLATE 71

No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 72

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

PLATE 73

No. 9, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 74

No. 10, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 75

N^o. 11 BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 76

No. 11, BEDFORD SQUARE, EXTERIOR

PLATE 77

No. 11, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 78

No. 13, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 79

No. 14, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 80

No. 15, BEDFORD SQUARE, ENTRANCE DOORWAY

PLATE 81

No. 8, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 82

No. 23, BEDFORD SQUARE, DOORS AND DOORCASE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 83

CHIMNEY BREAST

ALCOVENo. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 84

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR,No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 85

No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 86

DETAIL OF CENTRAL PANEL

No. 28, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 87

No. 30, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 88

No. 31, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 89

N^o. 32 BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 90

No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE, SCREEN IN HALL

PLATE 91

PANEL OF CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

DETAIL OF CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOORNo. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 92

CEILING, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 92

CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOORNo. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 93

No. 40, BEDFORD SQUARE, PLASTER PLAQUE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 94

No. 40, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 95

CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR No. 41, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 96

No. 44, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 97

Nos. 46–47, BEDFORD SQUARE, EXTERIOR

PLATE 98

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOORNo. 46, BEDFORD SQUARE

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 99

No. 47 BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 100

CEILING OVER STAIRCASE

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOORNo. 47, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 101

No. 47, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 102

No. 48, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 103

No. 48, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 104

No. 50, BEDFORD SQUARE, FANLIGHT IN ENTRANCE HALL

PLATE 105

No. 51, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 106

No. 68, GOWER STREET, DOORCASE

No. 84, GOWER STREET, DOORCASE

PLATE 107

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR HOUSE IN REAR OF No. 196, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

EXTERIOR

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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. ClaudiusE 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, Bridges5–105,—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’sBlemundsbury, 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 inBlack 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 suchleasesas are in my possession, asinter aliaSavoy, 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.

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