Arundel House

Arundel House Act 1670
Arundel House Act 1670
Act of Parliament
	22 & 23 Cha. 2. c. 19
Dates
Royal assent	22 April 1671

51°30′43″N 0°6′51″W / 51.51194°N 0.11417°W / 51.51194; -0.11417

Arundel House was a London town-house located between the Strand and the River Thames, near the Church of St Clement Danes.

History

During the

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

Henry Fitz Alan, 12th Earl of Arundel, for about £

40.

It was later inherited through marriage by the

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

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

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

[1] Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classical Tradition (Yale, 2007), pp. 75-6.

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