Blackfriars Road

Blackfriars-Road,—commences at the S. end of Blackfriars-bridge and extends to the Obelisk, it is about ⅔ of a mile in length.

Blackfriars'-Road, commences at the south end of Blackfriars'-bridge, and extends to the Obelisk by the Surrey Theatre. It is about two thirds of a mile in length.

Blackfriars Road. An Act was passed 1769 to make a road from the south end of Blackfriars Bridge to the turnpike road across St. George's Fields, and near to the house called the Dog and Duck. It was known as Great Surrey Street until about 1829. It is about two-thirds of a mile in length. West Side. Rotunda, built for the Leverian Museum; afterwards converted into the Surrey institution [which see]. Christ Church, Surrey, built about 1740; the site of the church is a part of Old Paris Garden. Great Charlotte Street. Stamford Street. Peabody Square—the great square of model tenements erected by the Trustees of the Peabody Fund on the site of the Magdalen Hospital. Surrey Theatre. East Side. Goods Depôt of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. Starting place for the South London tramcars. Southwark Street. Surrey Chapel, an octagonal building at the corner of Charlotte Street, built by the eccentric but excellent Rowland Hill, and opened June 8, 1783. The congregation removed in 1876 to a new building, called Christ Church, Westminster Road; but Surrey Chapel was continued as a place of worship till March 23, 1881, when it was finally closed. The Rev. Rowland Hill died at his house in the Blackfriars Road, April 11, 1833, in the eighty-ninth year of his age, and was buried in a vault "underneath the pulpit" in which he had preached for nearly fifty years. Here his corpse remained for nearly another half century, until on the closing of the chapel it was removed, April 14, 1881, and reinterred "under the Lincoln Tower" of Christ Church, Westminster Road. Over the door at the opposite corner of Charlotte Street, is the figure of a dog with his head in a pot. The Dog's Head in the Pot is mentioned as an old London sign in a curious old tract printed by Wynkyn de Worde, called "Cocke Lorelles Bote." Obelisk at the south end of the road, erected in 1771 in honour of Brass Crosby, Lord Mayor, who was imprisoned in the Tower by the House of Commons for committing a messenger of the House into custody.