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Arundel House was a London town-house located between the Strand and the River Thames, near the Church of St Clement Danes.
History
| Arundel House Act 1670 | |
|---|---|
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for building Arundell House, and Tenements thereunto belonging. |
| Citation | 22 & 23 Cha. 2. c. 19 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 22 April 1671 |
During the Middle Ages, it was the London residence of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, when it was known as Bath Inn, similarly to other grand London town-houses like Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn. In 1539, at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was granted by King Henry VIII to William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton.
It reverted to the Crown on Fitzwilliam's death and was re-granted in 1545 by King Henry VIII to Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, a younger brother of Jane Seymour (the king's third wife) and younger brother of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector and uncle of the infant King Edward VI. After Thomas Seymour's execution for treason in 1549, the house was sold to Henry Fitz Alan, 12th Earl of Arundel, for about £40.
It was later inherited through marriage by the Howard family and housed the Arundel Marbles, the famous sculpture collection of Thomas Howard, 2nd/21st Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, 1st Earl of Norfolk (1585–1646), most of which is now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, although a 2nd-century AD relief from Ephesus kept at the house may be seen in the 17th-century gallery at the Museum of London.
According to The Oxford Dictionary of Music (1994), the first performance of Thomas Tallis's forty-part motet, Spem in alium, probably took place in the Long Gallery of Arundel House in 1568 or 1569.
Around the year 1618, the court architect Inigo Jones designed an Italianate gateway for Arundel House, and probably a wing known from the view by Cornelius Bol, and the building with dormer windows seen in Hollar's engraving.[1]
During the late 1620s and early 1630s, the mathematician William Oughtred had a room at Arundel House, where he instructed the Earl's son and gave direction to other mathematicians. The house also hosted the Earl's protégé, the artist and topographer Wenceslaus Hollar. The Royal Society held its meetings there during the late 1660s.
Under the ancient name of Bath Inn, it had housed Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, after his release from the Tower of London in 1621. Arundel House was eventually demolished, and it is commemorated today by Arundel Street and Surrey Street.
Present-day site
The Strand Lane Baths are situated within the former grounds. They are now in the ownership of the National Trust.
During the late 19th century, a new building named Arundel House was constructed in the Tudor Revival style. It is located at the foot of Arundel Street, on the corner of Temple Place. It is currently a conference centre and serves as the headquarters of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
References
- Walford, Edward. Old London: Strand to Soho. London: The Alderman Press, 1987. Orig. publ. 1878. ISBN 0-946619-31-X
- Ben Weinreb, and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopædia. 2nd edition (1st ed. 1983). London: Macmillan, 1992. ISBN 0-333-57688-8
- ^ Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classical Tradition (Yale, 2007), pp. 75-6.
External links
- Arundel House article from The Map of Early Modern London project at The University of Victoria
- Hollar's etchings of Arundel House from the North and South, plus the 1647 view of the City from the top of Arundel House
- Account of Arundel House, with plan of Arundel and Essex Houses
6 Annotations
First Reading
vicente • Link
from Pedro. on Mon 31 May 2004, 5:33
Arundell-House.
For small picture of Gresham College and Arundel House see;
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library…
vicente • Link
It appears to be have been carved up : Howard, Norfolk ,Arundel and Surrey streets show where it sat . The names are Arundels monikers but because of the Catholic Connection had to sell out and stay away from the Heat of religious Fervour
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/Se…
Arundel House now the centre of Strageic studies
was home to the Howards Great Catholics.
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios…
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library…
Pedro • Link
THOMAS, EARL OF ARUNDEL—THE ARUNDELIAN MARBLES.
For an interesting account of the statues that Sam may have seen see…
http://www.thebookofdays.com/mont…
Pedro • Link
And if the above was not enough, for more about the Earl and WENTZEL HOLLAR see (scroll down) see…
http://www.thebookofdays.com/mont…
Michael Robinson • Link
Wenceslaus Hollar (Czech/British 1607-1677)
Arundel House from the North; view of the courtyard of Arundel House in the Strand looking S; coach and six horses standing outside house with dormer windows on r, ten horsemen on l, three men standing in the foreground, smoky chimneys in the background.
Etching, 1646
http://www.britishmuseum.org/rese…
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Bill • Link
[This] house was in 1603 granted to Charles, Earl of Nottingham, but four years later was transferred to Thomas Howard, the son of Philip, who was restored to the Earldom of Arundel by James I. In his time Arundel House became the repository of that noble collection of works of art, of which the very ruins are ornaments now to several principal cabinets. The collection contained, when entire, 37 statues, 128 busts, and 250 inscribed marbles.
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During the Protectorate Arundel House appears to have been used for the reception of strangers of distinction. Thomas, Earl of Arundel, died 1646; and at the Restoration, in 1660, his house and marbles were restored to his grandson, who, at the instigation of Evelyn, gave the library to the Royal Society, and the inscribed marbles, still known as the Arundelian Collection, to the University of Oxford.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.