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Survey of London
… The Piazza CHAPTER IV The Piazza The building of the Piazza … b The houses in the Great Piazza, except those which stood at or adjoining the corners of James Street and Russell … 4,703 16 s. 5 d. The builders whom the Earl employed were John Taylor, bricklayer, plasterer and tyler; Richard Vesey, …
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… The Piazza Nos. 1-3 (consec.) Great Piazza Nos. 13 (consec.) … occupied as a private residence in 1761 when it was let to John Inge, a City wine merchant, who established a … who was already occupying part of the premises next door at No. 43 King Street. 50 Richardson's coffee house and hotel …
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… The Piazza Nos. 1-3 (consec.) Tavistock Row Nos. 13 (consec.) … or refaced in the early eighteenth century; probably at about the same time as No. 23 (see below). At some time … eight o'clock in the morning. 149 In c. 1800 the lessee, John Stacie, converted the tavern into a hotel called the …
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… The Piazza Nos. 1-4 (consec.) Little Piazza with 11 Russell … and the surviving end house of the row had been built at the expense of George Hulbert who in 1633 had been granted … latter's widow and, after her remarriage, by her husband, John Groscourt. 124 An advertisement of 1701, announcing a …
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… The Piazza Nos. 10-12 (consec.) Great Piazza Nos. 1012 … of the Leads'. 25 This lessee was the actor and friend of John Rich, Charles Macklin, who retired from the stage in … which he opened in March 1754. The coffee room was built at the rear of the portico building and part of the premises …
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… The Piazza Nos. 13-19 (consec.) Great Piazza with No. 13 … 1726 when Sarah Gardiner was probably the proprietress. 42 At this time it appears to have occupied a building at the … the whole of the site formerly let to Sydenham was let to John Rich for the erection of Covent Garden Theatre. 96 The …
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… The Piazza Nos. 4-10 (consec.) Great Piazza with No. 1 James … 1698 42 and were probably only patched up. It was no doubt at this time that the front was heightened by a parapet that … eastwards (No. 67) was erected under a lease granted to John Ward, citizen and girdler of London, from Michaelmas …
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… The Piazza Notable private residents in the Piazza Notable … Street. William Paget, Baron Paget of Beaudesert, 163743; John Trenchard, 1644, agent to the fourth Earl of Bedford, … and soldier, member of the Long Parliament, killed at Edgehill; Sir Peter Ingram, c. 1643; Countess of …
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… The Piazza Sites of No. 37 Henrietta Street and No. 1 King … side of the church and churchyard two houses, which Sir John Summerson has described as 'of obviously Jonesian … and girdler of London, a thirty-six-year lease of the site at the south-east corner of the churchyard upon which Palmer …
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… The Piazza The Architectural Decline of the Piazza The … Piazza Before attempting to chart the breaking up, gradual at first, of the Piazza's original uniformity, it is … dressed with this Tuscan order, notably those at the north end of the east side, where considerable damage had been …