Suffolk Place
King Henry VIII granted it to his wife Jane Seymour in June 1537, but when she died the following October, it reverted to the King. In 1545 the house was converted into a mint. It was occupied by Queen Mary I (1553-1558) and her new husband Philip II of Spain on the night before their state entry into London in 1554. This was possibly the time when it was depicted by Anthony van den Wyngaerde in his Panorama of London, to the left of Borough High Street in the foreground of the picture. It was demolished in 1557 and the area was built over with small tenements, which became known as The Mint, a notorious rookery. A modern office block called Brandon House at 180 Borough High Street (opposite Borough tube station) now occupies the site of Suffolk Place. It is also memorialised by nearby Suffolk Street.
References
- ^ Jerry White (2007) London in the Nineteenth Century: 9
- ^ Felix Barker and Peter Jackson (1974) London: 2000 Years of a City and its People: 52
- ^ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol. X, no. 243
- ^ "Mint Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 521
- ^ Felix Barker and Peter Jackson (1974) London: 2000 Years of a City and its People: 48-52
- ^ "Mint Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 521
- ^ Jerry White (2007) London in the Nineteenth Century: 9-10
- ^ "Borough High Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 78