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Old and New London
… David Garrick, who had appeared in private at St. John's Gate, and now essayed the character of "Richard III." with …
Old and New London
… on two gibbets in Fleet Street, over against the great gate of the Whitefriars. The page's gibbet was six feet …
A Dictionary of London
… "Whitegate Alley" (O. and M. 1677). " (Wide - or White) Gate "-Street (Strype, 1720, I. ii. 108). Until about 1902 it … The earlier form of the name in O. and M. suggests a gate at the end of the alley that could be closed at night, …
Survey of London
… Robert Murray, whose house is shown adjoining the Holbein Gate, died in 1673. (vi) Lady Villiers, whose house is shown … On the other hand, the semicircular entrance to the Court Gate and the New Gallery, both constructed in 16689, are … it is to be feared, with only partial success. Whitehall Gate (The Court Gate). The old Tudor gatehouse of Whitehall …
Survey of London
… almost in a line with the southern face of the King Street Gate. (i) The property immediately south of the Bars was that … Legh. (ii) The property of Legh is described 13 as a great gate with chamber and 6 tenements with garden adjoining and 4 … the Banqueting House and the northern line of the Holbein Gate. Owing principally to the lack of details of Henbury's …
Survey of London
… belong to His Ma ts Barber in Whitehall (which are at the Gate entring into Scotland yard) for M r Firmin, His Ma ts …
Old and New London
… hallye shall understand that he came by water to the water-gate without any noise where, against his coming, were laid … merit." Accordingly he commissioned Holbein to build a new gate at Whitehall with bricks of two colours, light and dark …
Old and New London
… and imposing gateway, called, from its designer, Holbein's Gate, of which we have already spoken. So bad was King Street …
Old and New London
… the "street leading from Charing Cross unto the Sanctuary Gate at Westminster," and on the other by "the water of the … was the gateway designed by Hans Holbein. This latter gate, it is stated in the "New View of London" (1708), was termed "Cock-pit Gate," and it is said to have been "an extraordinarily …
Old and New London
… the background it shows the Banqueting House, the Holbein Gate, the Treasury in its ancient state, and the top of the … Banqueting House of Whitehall at the point where Holbein's Gate once stood, and commands a front prospect of the broad … Street) on the east, to St. James's Park, near Storey's Gate, on the west; and from Downing Street on the north to …