Russell Court
Names
- Russell Court
- Russel Court
Street/Area/District
- Russell Court
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Russell Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Russell Court
- 1799 London (Horwood): Russel Court
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Russel court, on the SW side of Drury lane, a passage into Bridges str. Covent garden.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Russel Court, a very handsome large Place, with good Buildings well inhabited; hath a Freestone Passage into Bridges-street, and another Passage against Mr. Burgess's Meeting-house, into White Hart Yard, through Red Lion Alley.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Russel court, Drury lane. †
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Russell-Court, Drury-Lane,—at 75, about ⅛ of a mile on the L. from the New-Church in the Strand, leading to 29, Brydges-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Russell-Ct..—is in Drury-lane.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Russell Court, Drury Lane, a narrow passage for foot-passengers only, leading from Drury Lane into Catherine Street, Covent Garden. [See Will's; Rose.]
Towards the defraying the charge of repairing and fitting up the Chapel in Russell Court, Drury Lane, will be presented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, this present Tuesday, being the 18th of June, the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. With Singing by Mr. Hughes and entertainment of Dancing by Mons. Cherier, Miss Lambro, his scholar, and Mr. Evans.—Daily Courant, June 18, 1706, quoted in Burton's Hist. of Queen Anne, vol. iii. p. 309.
This curious benefit performance called forth much comment, and Defoe, making merry with it in his Review, recommended that when the chapel was re-edified a tablet, should be set up, "as is very frequent in like cases," stating when and by whose charitable aid the work was accomplished, and testified by "Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and Hamlet, Princeof Denmark, Churchwardens."—Review, June 20, 1706.