Ormond Yard

Names

  • Blackamore Street
  • Ormond Yard
  • Blackamoor's Head Yard

Street/Area/District

  • Ormond Yard

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from the Grub Street Project, by Allison Muri (2006-present)

Blackamore Street. West from York Street, in St. James Westminster (Strype 1720).

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Ormond-Yard.— is in York-street, St. James's-square, about four houses on the left hand from the north side of the square.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Ormond-Yard, York-Street, St. James's Square,—about four doors on the L. from the N. side, and near the same distance from the S. side of St. James's church.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Ormond Yard, Duke Street, St. James's Square. So called from the London residence in St. James's Square of James Butler, Duke of Ormond, who did so much and suffered so much in the cause of King Charles I. The gallant Earl of Ossory was his son; and the beautiful Countess of Chesterfield, of De Grammont's Memoirs, his daughter. His grandson and heir was attainted in 1715 for his participation in the rebellion of that year.

York Street comes out of St. James's Square, a broad street, but the greatest part is taken up by the garden walls of the late Duke of Ormond's house on the one side, and on the other side by the bouse inhabited by the Lord Cornwallis.—Strype's Stow, ed. 1720, B. vi. p. 83.

In Strype's Map, however, it is set down as Blackamore Street; and Dodsley, forty years later, calls it Blackamoor's Head Yard.