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Arundel House (c.
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Queen of England
Historian.
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
King of Denmark
King of England and Ireland
Queen of England and Ireland
King of England and Ireland
Bohemian etcher. Moved to London in
Architect and theatre designer.
Queen of Scotland
Naval officer and diarist.
Queen of Denmark and Norway
Jesuit priest, poet, and secret missionary in England. Viewed as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church after his execution.
Historian and author of
Historian and author of
Archbishop of York
Architect, mathematician, and astronomer.
Professor of history, rhetoric, and poetry at the University of Altdorf.
Governess of
First Viscount St. Alban. Philosopher, scientist, and statesman.
Dutch delegate and diarist.
Third Earl of Bath. Owner of Bath Inn.
Bishop of Salisbury
Printer. Worked for
Lord High Treasurer
Earl of Southampton. Owner Hampton Place.
Twelfth Earl of Arundel. Nobleman and courtier.
Poet and playwright.
Jesuit priest.
Scientific instrument maker.
Translator.
Fourth Duke of Norfolk. Nobleman and courtier.
Thirteenth Earl of Arundel. Nobleman and Catholic Saint.
Fourteenth Earl of Arundel. Art collector and politician.
Thirteenth Baroness Furnivall and Countess of Arundel. Art collector and traveller.
Countess of Arundel. Noblewoman, poet, and religious conspirator.
Sixth Duke of Norfolk. Nobleman and Catholic.
Mathematician, surveyor, and patron of astronomy.
Dutch portrait painter and artist.
Preist. Fabricator of the
Queen of England and Ireland
Flemish painter.
Baron of Sudeley. Nobleman and politician.
Architect.
Jesuit priest and missionary.
Italyangate, Arundel House, Strand, London
Italyangarden gate and part of the house’s front façade
Strand Lane was a narrow and rather winding thoroughfare leading to the Embankment a few yards to the east of Somerset House
(Thornbury).
Somerset House (labelled as Somerſet Palace
on the Agas map) was a significant site for royalty in early modern London. Erected in
Named for its location on the bank of the Thames, the Strand leads outside the City of London from Temple Bar through what was formerly the Duchy of Lancaster to Charing Cross in what was once the city of Westminster. There were three main phases in the evolution of the Strand in early modern times: occupation by the bishops, occupation by the nobility, and commercial development.
Durham House was located in the Strand, west of Ivy Lane. It stood at the border between the Duchy of Lancaster and Westminster.
Located along The Strand in Westminster, the site of Savoy Hospital was initially the manor of
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Temple Bar was one of the principle entrances to the city of London, dividing the Strand to the west and Fleet Street to the east. It was an ancient right of way and toll gate. Walter Thornbury dates the wooden gate structure shown in the Agas Map to the early Tudor period, and describes a number of historical pageants that processed through it, including the funeral procession of
Whitehall Palace, the Palace of Whitehall or simply Whitehall, was one
of the most complex and sizeable locations in the entirety of early modern Europe. As the primary place of residence for monarchs from
[i]t lay on the left bank of the Thames, and extended from nearly the point where Westminster Bdge. now crosses the river to
Scotland Yard, and from the river back to St. James’s Park
(Sugden 564-565).
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
Arundel Stairs provided access to Arundel House from the Thames.
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Arundel House (c. Between Milford Lane and Strand Lane—a narrow and rather winding thoroughfare leading to the Embankment a few yards to the east of Somerset House—the entire space, about three hundred yards in length and the same in breadth
(Thornbury 63-84). The plot of land was 40 ½ ells in width,
(Then was the Bishop of
Baths Inne, or City-House, builded by the Thomas Seamer, Admiral of EnglandArundelNativity of our Lady, or the Innocents of the Strand, with a fair Cœmitery, or Church-yard, wherein there was a Brother-hood kept, called Saint Vrsula of the Strand.
A number of early modern maps depict the location of Arundel House. These maps show the physical changes made to the house over the years and offer insight into its cultural significance, as it becomes more prominently featured over time. The Wyngaerde map (Part 1 and Part 2), surveyed between Durham House, Savoy Palace, and Somerset House
(Mitton 6) on this map, but Arundel House is not specifically locatable. During the time the Wyngaerade map was made,
As the house gained notoriety, cartographers began representing it more carefully. Braun, Hogenberg, and Hoefnagel’s map
Arundell P.This map outlines the sections of the gardens.
The
very rudely(Kingsford 249n2).
The 1616 Visscher Panorama of London depicts Arundel House, though the gallery wing is a bit truncated.
Ogilby and Morgan’s to the south are the great houses of Essex and Arundel, with their gardens; their names are preserved in the streets that flow over their sites
(Mitton 19). The accuracy with which cartographers represented Arundel House improves in proportion to its notoriety in London.
Morgan’s
ground for Arundel house.Morden and Lea’s
Arundell Stairs.
Arundel House (Arundel,
Arundell,
Arondel,
and Arondell,
was previously known as Bath Place or Bath Inn (Then was the Bishop of Bathes Inne, lately new builded, for a great parte thereof by the
(Stow 365). Thomas Seamer AdmirallArondellArundell houseArondel house before called Hampton place
(Camden 428). A
(Grants in November, 1545 910.77). After l., of the chief mansion and chief messuage called Hampton Place alias Bathe Place in the parish of St. Clement without the bars of the New Temple, London
Today, Arundel Street remains in London as a reminder of the house’s former location. A new Arundel House, constructed in the Tudor Revival style in the nineteenth century, currently stands on the corner of Arundel Street and has housed the International Institute for Strategic Studies since 1997. This building is unrelated to the original medieval and early modern estate.
In the Medieval period, Bath Inn (later Arundel House) was the largest of the episcopal properties on the Strand, first granted to Giving to the churches of Wells and Bath, and succeeding bishops, a place formerly belonging to Eustace, bishop of London, in the suburbs of London in the street of St. Clement without the Bar, with all the houses and buildings there
(
what he did was probably to erect the extensive blocks stretching from the southwest corner of the old house and down to the river, whilst preserving the ancient courtyard and hall
(Kingsford 249).
When Then was the Bishop of Baths Inn, (called also Hampton Place) lately new builded (for a great Part thereof) by the
(Strype 4.7.105).
the great old decayed house called the storehouse.
She was given a key in her own custody
in order to use the gardens.
When
After the Restoration, the house was restored to
as well for the more beautifying the said buildings by bringing them to a more just symmetry and proportion all along the river, as for enlarging the gardens of the House
(
The site was excavated in
A number of significant political events are directly connected to Arundel House, including
The
(Wolsey to Sampson and Jerningham 3153). Bath House
(Campeggio 5820).
In the At Seymour Place, when the
(
In the in the low Galery at Arondell-Howse
(Cecil 23).
The House’s association with secret Catholic affairs continued while it was under the ownership of It was in part under
Sweeney 113a well-known publisher enjoying the monopoly of printing play-bills, who styled himself, at least until 1585: Printer to the
(Devlin 143), was the publisher responsible for this secret press.
Though the I do now remember myself of another printer that had press and letter in a place called the Charterhouse in London (in Anno 1587, near about the time of the Scottish Queenes death) intelligence was given unto your good grace of the same by some of the Stationers in London
(there too that
(
The site again became embroiled in a conspiracy during the Popish Plot in in one corner of Old Arundel House
(A Complete Collection of State Trials 402).
In the seventeenth century, Arundel House became a significant artistic centre in London. According to Haynes, at its greatest extent the sculpture collection is said to have comprised no less than thirty-seven statues, one hundred and twenty-eight busts and two hundred and fifty inscriptions, as well as a large number of sarcophagi, altars and fragments
(Haynes 10). The inscriptions were ancient Greek and Latin texts carved into pieces of stone and marble. In a portrait of
one may suppose that some changes were necessary to provide an adequate setting for these splendid collections, and Arundel’s letters in 1618-1619 contain some mention of works in progress
(Kingsford 254).
Arundel House inspired many of
Arundel House was rapidly assuming the appearance of an Italian palace
(Haynes 4). However, Howarth sees imaginary views
(Howarth and Dethloff). Alice Friedman calls this disconnect between startling,
noting, we expect arches and pediments and columns, not rambling half-timber structures
(Friedman 158). These contradictory reports reveal the way material realities and conceptual impressions (the Italian ideal vs. the pastoral ideal) did not always align.
Arundel House was a cultural centre for elite guests, including British royalty and foreign ambassadors.
Tours of Arundel House began during Back to the Wardrobe with my Lord, and then with
Pepys 30 May 1661
Though undeniably an elite estate, so much of the statuary was placed outside on the bank of the Thames that the general public knew the collection. The bankside display may seem to violate the division between public and private spaces, but was not unusual for the period. Other elite private residences, like Whitehall Palace, also served as cultural centres for the public. In certain gardens on the Thames, where there are rare Greek and Roman inscriptions, stones, marbles; the reading of which is actually like viewing Greece and Italy at once within the bounds of Great Britain
(a kind of memory theatre
(120).
After the Restoration, Since by the firing of
Sprat 253London, the first place of their meeting has been restor’d to its original use, and made an Exchange, he has afforded them a retreat in his own house, where they assemble at this present: By which favour he has added a new honour to the antient Nobility of his Race: one of his Ancestors had before adorn’d that place with many of the best Monuments of Antiquity: And now by entertaining these new discoveries under his Roof, his Family deserves the double praise of having cherish’d both the old, and new Learning; so that now methinks in Arundel house, there is a perfect representation, what the Real Philosophy ought to be: As there we behold new Inventions to flourish amongst the Marbles, and Images of the Dead: so the present Arts, that are now rising, should not aim at the destruction of those that are past, but be content to thrive in their company.
(Pepys 7 January 1666/7). plainly hear the dashing of the oares of the boats in the Thames to Arundell gallery window,
and an experiment on a dog’s spine (Pepys 9 January 1666/7, 30 May 1667, 2 April 1668, 16 July 1668).
Even after Arundel House was demolished in Formerly the Bishop of Bath’s Inn: Which in Process of Time came to the Family of the Howards, Dukes of Norfolk, the late Duke dwelling there. It then was a very large and old built House; with a spacious Yard for Stablings, towards the Strand, and with a Gate to enclose it, where there was the Porters Lodge; and as large a Garden towards the Thames. This said House and Grounds was some Years since converted into Streets and Buildings.
Strype 4.7.117
Behold that narrow street which steep descends, Whose building to the slimy shore extends, Here Arundel’s fam’d structure rear’d its frame, The street alone retains an empty name.
A 1972 archaeological excavation of the site found very extensive destruction
(Hammerson 214) where Arundel House once stood. The majority of remains discovered in the