Northumberland House (Crutched Friars Lane)
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- Aldgate Ward
- Billiter Lane
- Churches in Aldgate
- Excerpts from If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, Part 2
- Fenchurch Street
- Gazetteer (A)
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- Hartshorn Alley
- London Aliens
- St. Katherine Coleman
- Survey of London: Aldgate Ward
- Survey of London: Parishes
- Variant spellings
Northumberland House was a stately home in Crutched Friars Lane, south of Aldgate. It was built by and named after Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in
1455 (Harben). Stow records that by
1598, the house had been abandoned and that the gardens had been turned into one
of the first bowling alleys, where all and sundry could bowl and gamble. But
Stow notes that
now of late so money [many] bowling Allies, and other houses for vnlawful gaming, hath beene raised in other parts of the Citie and suburbs, that this [Northumberland House] their ancient and onely patron of misrule, is left and forsaken of her Gamesters, and therefore turned into a number of great rents, small cottages, for strangers and others(Stow).
Northumberland House and its gardens are clearly
marked on the Agas map. The house is a large residence within an enclosed
compound east of St. Katherine Coleman and just
above the pump at the north end of Woodroffe
Lane.
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Reprint. British History Online. Subscription. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]This item is cited in the following documents:
