Savoy Palace
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The Savoy Palace, considered the grandest
Savoy Palace
In the Middle Ages, although there were many noble palaces within the walls of the City of London, the most desirable location for housing the nobility was the Strand, which was the greatest part of the ceremonial route between the City and the Palace of Westminster, where the business of parliament and the royal court was transacted. Other advantages of the Strand were that a house could have a water frontage on the Thames, the great water highway, and be free of the stink, smoke, and social tumult of the City of London downstream and generally downwind to the east, and its constant threat of fires.
In 1246
Destruction
During the
Savoy Hospital
It was here that
From early in its existence the Hospital appears to have been prone to mismanagement.
The
A commission appointed by King William III reported that the Hospital's main function, relief of the poor, was being utterly neglected; it made recommendations, but these were not enacted.[3] In 1702, the office of Master being vacant, Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, dismissed the remaining Chaplains and formally declared the Hospital foundation dissolved.[3]
List of Masters of the Savoy Hospital
The Masters of the Savoy were:[3]
- 1517 William Hogill (occurs 1529 and 1541)
- 1551 Robert Bowes
- 1553 Ralph Jackson (reappointed 1556)[6]
- c. 1559 Thomas Thurland (occurs 1559 and 1561, deposed 1570)
- c. 1570 William Mount (died 1602)
- 1602 Richard Neile
- 1608 George Montaigne (appointed Bishop of Lincoln 1617)
- 1618 Walter Balcanquhall (appointed and resigned 1618)
- 1618 Marco Antonio de Dominis (resigned 1621)
- 1621 Walter Balcanquhall (deposed 1645)[7]
- 1629 John Wilson
- 1645 John Bond[7][8]
- 1658 William Hooke[9]
- 1660 Gilbert Sheldon (appointed Archbishop of Canterbury 1663)
- 1663 Henry Killigrew (died 1700)[10]
- 1700–1702 Vacant
Savoy Barracks
The Hospital complex remained in use as barracks for most of the 18th century. In 1776 much of the structure was destroyed in a fire; at the time it housed a military infirmary, prison and recruiting station. As early as 1775 Sir William Chambers (who was already responsible for rebuilding the adjacent riverside property, Somerset House, to serve as government offices) was asked to draw up plans to replace the Hospital buildings with an entirely new Barracks for the Foot Guards (to accommodate 3,000 men). He drew up plans for a three-sided quadrangle of six-storey buildings, open towards the river, behind an elevated river terrace (akin to that built as Somerset House): details included pyramid roofs on the four corner pavilions, a large double-domed structure in the centre of the north wing (which would have served as a chapel) and a subterranean gallery where prisoners would exercise, beneath the main parade ground. He was paid for his design in 1795 but the scheme never went ahead, being finally dropped in 1804.[11] In 1816–20 almost all the remaining hospital buildings were demolished to make way for the approach road to the new Waterloo Bridge.[4]
Savoy Chapel
The only hospital building to survive the 19th-century demolition was its hospital chapel, dedicated to
Modern London
The Savoy Palace and Hospital are remembered in the names of the Savoy Hotel and the Savoy Theatre which now stand on the site. Many of the nearby streets are also named for the Savoy: Savoy Buildings, Court, Hill, Place, Row, Street and Way. Savoy Place is the London headquarters of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
The Savoy Estate is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster, held in trust for the Sovereign in His or Her role as Duke of Lancaster.[12]
See also
References
- ^ "Richard D'Oyly Carte" Archived 2009-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, Lyric Opera San Diego website
- ^ "VCH: "Hospital of the Savoy"". British-history.ac.uk. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Hospitals – Hospital of the Savoy | A History of the County of London: Volume 1 (pp. 546–549)". British-history.ac.uk. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Savoy Palace" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia
- ^ Osborne, Mike (2012). Defending London: A Military History from Conquest to Cold War. Stroud, Gloucs.: The History Press.
- ^ Loftie, William John (1878). Memorials of the Savoy. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 110–114. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ a b Journals of the House of Lords. Vol. 8. 1645. p. 81. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2826. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13688. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Aitken, George Atherton (1892). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Harris, John; Snodin, Michael (1996). Sir William Chambers: Architect to George III. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 123.
- ^ "The Urban Survey - Duchy of Lancaster". duchyoflancaster.co.uk.
Further reading
- Cowie, L. W. "The Savoy – Palace and Hospital" History Today (March 1974), Vol. 24 Issue 3, pp 173–179 online.
- Marshall, John (2023). Peter of Savoy: The Little Charlemagne. Pen and Sword.
- Stanford, Charlotte (2015). The Building Accounts of the Savoy Hospital, London, 1512–1520. Rochester, NY: Boydell. p. 456. ISBN 978-1-78327-066-8.