Arundel Street
Names
- Arundel Street
Street/Area/District
- Arundel Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Arundell Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Arundel Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Arundel Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Arundel Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Arundel street, a pleasant and considerable str. betn the Strand (near St. Clement's Church) N. and the Thames S. L. 170 Yds. This is between Essex str. and Norfolk str. see Strand.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Arundel Street ... hath the best Buildings towards the Thames; on the East side is a Street called Water Street, chiefly for Coaches and Stablings, at the bottom of which is a pretty handsome House, with a Garden towards the Thames: and under the House there is a Passage into the Thames for the watering of Horses. Out of this Street are two Passages into Arundel Street, one of which is broad for Coaches, and the other narrow, which is called Pissing Alley. And out of this Place there are two Passages into Milford Lane, the one towards the bottom very small and bad, being descended by Steps, very ill built and inhabited; the other is called Greyhound Court already mentioned in the Discription of Milford Lane. At the upper End of this Street is the Crown Tavern, a large and curious House with good Rooms and other Conveniences fit for Entertainment.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Arundel street, Strand, so called from Lord Arundel's house there.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Arundel-Street, Strand,—at 187, the second on the L. about ⅛ of a mile from Temple-bar extending to the Thames.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Arundel-St., Strand, is the second turning on the left going from the city, about a furlong from Temple-bar, and extends to the Thames. It receives its name as being on the site of Arundel-house, the town mansion of the celebrated Earl of Arundel.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Arundel Street, Strand, was built in 1678, on the site of Arundel House. Gay has photographed this street for us, as it appeared in 1716:—
Behold that narrow street which steep descends,
Whose buildings to the slimy shore extends;
Here Arundel's fam'd structure rear'd its frame,
The street alone retains the empty name:
Where Titian's glowing paint the canvas warm'd
And Raphael's fair design, with judgment, charm'd,
Now hangs the bellman's song, and pasted here
The coloured prints of Overton appear.
Where statues breath'd, the work of Phidias' hands,
A wooden pump, or lonely watch-house stands.
Gay's Trivia, B. ii.
Eminent Inhabitants.—John Playford, the musician (d. 1693).1 Simon Harcourt, in 1688, afterwards Lord Chancellor (d. 1727). Thomas Rymer, whose Foedera is our best historical monument, died at his house in this street, in 1713, and was buried in the neighbouring church of St. Clement Danes. John Anstis, Garter King-at-Arms, 1715–1716. In 1732 Eustace Budgell, the friend of Addison.2 Mrs. Porter, the celebrated actress, "over against the Blue Ball."
1 Advertisement at end of Trapp's Tragedy of Saul.
2 Budgell's Liberty and Property, p. 122, and App. p. 5.