Green Dragon Court
Names
- Green Dragon Court
- Canterbury Court
- Scallop Court
- Swan Alley
Street/Area/District
- Green Dragon Court
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Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Green Dragon Court
West out of St. Andrew's Hill at No. 11 (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within.
First mention: Lockie, 1810.
Former names: "Canterbury Court." "Scallop Court" (O. and M. 1677–Horwood, 1799). "Swan Alley" (Strype, ed. 1720–Boyle, 1799).
Name derived from the sign.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Swan Alley, near the Wardrobe, Blackfriars. The Swan was the cognisance of the Beauchamp family, long distinguished residents in this part of London. The so-called Duke Humphrey's tomb, in old St. Paul's, was really the tomb of Sir John Beauchamp.
In the Council Register of the l8th August, 1618, there may be seen "a list of buildings and foundations since 1615." It is therein said, "That Edward Allen, Esq., dwelling at Dulwich [the well-known player and founder of Dulwich College], had built six tenements of timber upon new foundations, within two years past, in Swan Alley near the Wardrobe.—Chalmers's Apology, vol. i. p. 280.