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Leicester House was a large aristocratic townhouse in Westminster, London, to the north of where Leicester Square now is. Built by the Earl of Leicester and completed in 1635, it was later occupied by Elizabeth Stuart, a British princess and former Queen of Bohemia, and in the 1700s by the two successive Hanoverian princes of Wales.
The building of Leicester House in the seventeenth century heralded the expansion of London north-westwards beyond Charing Cross. The pictorial map made about 1570, attributed to Ralph Agas, shows all the land between the churches of St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Giles-in-the-Fields as open pasture, on which animals are grazing and a woman is ...
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Leicester Square and the adjoining streets(fig. 94) were laid out on the estate ofseven acres acquired by Robert Sidney,second Earl of Leicester, in 1630 and 1648. (fn. 1) This land formed part of St. Martin's Field(Plate 1a) and had belonged at the close of theMiddle Ages to the Abbot and Convent of St.Peter's, Westminster, and the Beaumont family...
The idea of laying out a grand square 'intending the good and benefit of his family, theadvancement of their revenue, and the decencyof the place before Leycester house' (fn. 111) does notappear to have occurred to Robert, second Earl ofLeicester, until late in his life, and seems to havebeen partly influenced by the laying-out of St.James's Square...
The licence to build in Leicester Field andSwan Close in 1670/1 forbade the use of anypremises for noxious trades, (fn. 116) and, when hegranted building leases, Lord Leicester controlledthe use of houses for commercial purposes byprohibiting the making of shops without hispermission. (fn. 122)As far as can be judged from theevidence available this...
The site of Leicester Square was formerly partof the common field of St. Martin's, where theparishioners enjoyed rights of way and the use ofthe held for drying clothes and pasturing cattleafter Lammas Day (12 August). This traditionalusage is represented pictorially in the 'Agas' viewof c. 1553–9 (fig. 97). In 1549 St. Martin'sField was described ...
A ‘prince’s party’ was active in Parliament during 1717-20, 1737-42, 1747-51 and 1755-57. As the London residence of three successive princes, Leicester House also served as their political headquarters and approximated to a ‘shadow’ court rivaling the king’s official court at St James’s.
Clift arrived from Bodmin in Cornwall at what was to be his London home in Leicester Square on February 14th, 1792. It was his seventeenth birthday and, by a strange coincidence, the birthday of his new master, the surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter.
Oct 30, 2022 · Formation of the square, and building of houses along the sides of the square came in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and by 1755 the square was developed as shown in the following map, where the square was then known as Leicester Fields, a name from when Leicester House was the only building in the area.
Leicester House may refer to: Leicester House, the original name of Essex House (London), London, built c. 1575 and demolished in the 1670s. Leicester House, Westminster, the house that Leicester Square is named after, built in the 1630s and demolished c. 1791. Category: Disambiguation pages.
