Crown Street
Names
- Crown Court
- Crown Street
- Rose and Crown Court
Street/Area/District
- Crown Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Rose and Crown Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Crown Court
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Crown Court
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Rose and crown inn, on the W. side of King str. Westminster, the sixth turning from the Gate.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Rose and Crown Court.] ... at the upper End [of Bell Court], ascending by Stone-steps, is Rose and Crown Court, a fine, large, and well built Place, the Houses fit for the Gentry, with a good Free-stone Pavement. The upper End of this Court cometh into Duke-street, and hath a Passage into Charles's-street.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Crown court, Duke street, Westminster. ✽
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Crown-Street, Westminster,—the fourth on the R. about ⅓ of a mile from Charing-cross, towards the abbey, extending from King-st. to Duke-st.
Crown-Street (Upper),—the end of the last, next Duke-st. and St. James's park.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Crown-St., Westminster, is about the third of a mile from Charing Cross toward the Abbey.
Crown-St., Upper, Westminster, is at the end of the preceding, next Duke-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Crown Street, Westminster, ran from King Street to Duke Street, but was cleared away to make room for the Government Offices. Here for many years lived, and here died, October 8, 1795, Andrew Kippis, F.R.S., editor of the Biographia Britannica, and writer of many of the best lives in it. He was for forty years minister of the Presbyterian Chapel in Princes Street.