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Take the next right (15 yards) onto Savoy Street. Go up Savoy Street, and after 40 yards turn left onto Savoy Hill. The Chapel is now 20 yards on the right. The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy is next door to the Savoy Hotel and just five minutes’ walk from Charing Cross Station.
- Savoy Hill, London, WC2R 0DA
Jan 30, 2017 · The Savoy. In 1246, Henry III gave a piece of land to Peter of Savoy, the Earl of Richmond, to build a house: an English home. In 1263, he built Savoy Palace. The Palace was on the Strand, the strip of land between London and Westminster, which at the time were separate cities.
Jul 6, 2012 · At one time the grandest of medieval townhouses in London, the history of the Savoy Palace, also known as the Palace of the Savoy, goes back to at least the 13th century. A mansion was built here by Simon de Montfort, the ill-fated Earl of Leicester, in 1245.
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The Savoy Palace, considered the grandest nobleman's townhouse of medieval London, was the residence of John of Gaunt until it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. It lay between the Strand and the River Thames – the present Savoy Theatre and Savoy Hotel were named in its memory.
3 days ago · The precinct of the Savoy was made into a parish by Bishop Grindal, in the reign of Elizabeth, when the Protector Somerset demolished the old Church of St. Mary, to make room for his new palace, and it is probably the smallest parish in the metropolis or its suburbs west of Temple Bar.
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