Red Lion Court
Names
- Red Lion Court
Street/Area/District
- Red Lion Court
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Red Lion Court
- 1720 London (Strype): Red Lion Court
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Red Lyon Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Red Lyon Court
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Red Lion Court
- 1799 London (Horwood): Red Lion Court
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Red Lion Court
North out of Fleet Street, at No. 170, to Great New Street (P.O. Directory), east of Fetter Lane. In Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: O. and M. 1677.
Named after the Red Lion Tavern here, mentioned 1592, and again in July, 1666, a few weeks before the Fire (Noble, 113).
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Red Lion Court, good and large, with a Freestone Pavement; hath a passage into West Harding street, in Goldsmiths Rents.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Red Lion court, Fleet Street. ✽
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Red-Lion-Court, Fleet-Street,—at 169, about ten doors E. from Fetter-lane, ⅛ of a mile on the L. from Temple-bar.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Red Lion-Ct.— ... is in Fleet-street, ten houses eastward of Fetter-lane.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, north side, east of Fetter Lane. William Bowyer, the learned printer, moved into this court from Whitefriars in 1767. John Nichols (of the Gentleman's Magazine), his "apprentice, partner and successor" (and biographer), had just been admitted into partnership. When Jennens, the Shakespeare editor, visited his printers he always came in a carriage with four horses and the same number of footmen, and in his progress up the paved court the footmen preceded him to kick oyster shells or orange peel out of his way. Nichols's office was destroyed by fire, February 8, 1808. His son and grandson continued the business in Parliament Street. Printers, publishers, bookbinders, and others connected with "the trade," still occupy the major part of the houses in Red Lion Court and many periodicals are published here.
One word before we part: call upon Mr. John Nichols, bookseller and printer at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, and ask him whether he did not, about the beginning of March, receive a very polite letter from Mr. Gibbon of Lausanne.—Gibbon to Lord Sheffield, May 30, 1792.