though at the time of writing one in Camberwell still survives.
It stood on the west side of the old burial ground of St. Mary's
Church (now a public garden), and behind No. 12, St. Mary's Terrace,
Paddington Green, and in 1895 was occupied by Welsh-speaking people
connected with a temporary Welsh chapel which stood hard by. The
walls of this cottage were composed of pebbles and broken flint
plastered over, and its rural look was enhanced by the surrounding
ground with trees growing thereon. The date of its erection was not
known. In the "Bayswater Annual" for 1885 there was a statement that
in 1820 the cottage belonged to a Mr. Chambers, "a banker of Bond
Street." In those days the occupants commanded an uninterrupted
view of the Harrow Road as it turned northward. Claremont
House, within a short distance of Chambers's Cottage, was remarkable
for the "Claremont Caverns" about which many uncanny tales were told.
They were the work of a Mr. Southgate Stevens who here carried on in
secret processes for extracting gold from quartz and other minerals.
He was said to have spent some £30,000 in this fruitless quest. A
drawing and short account of Chambers's Cottage will be found in the
"Builder" for May 18th and June 8th, 1895; it was demolished a year or
two afterwards, to make room for St. David's Welsh Church.
(7-3/4 × 10-11/16) D. 85-1896.
INDEX.
No. of
Drawing.
Admiral Carter Inn, Montagu Court, 56
Aldgate, Old houses in, 19
Allhallows the Great, Church of, 53, 54
Austin Friars, No. 10, Staircase of, 36
Austin Friars, No. 21, 37
Baptist's Head Public-house, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, 60
Barnard's Inn, Holborn, 62, 63
Bartholomew Close, Old house at entrance of, 57
Blakeney's Head Public-house, No. 35, Bartholomew Close, 58
Botolph Lane, Staircase of house in, 26
Bourdon House, Davies Street, 81
Bull Inn, Aldgate, 20
Bunyan's Monument, Bunhill Fields, 41
Chapter Coffee House, Paternoster Row, 44
Cheshire Cheese Tavern, Fleet Street, 65
Chesterfield House, South Audley Street, Library of, 80
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Old Fish Shop, 84
City Greenyard, No. 18, Whitecross Street, 40
City of London School, Victoria Embankment, 67
Clare Market, Old Butchers' Shops, 64
Cock and Pie, Drury Lane, 69
Coleman Street, No. 4, 42
College Hill, Gateways on the east side, 25
Crosby Hall Chambers, Bishopsgate Street, 31, 32
Crosby Square, No. 4, Garden of, 33
Devonshire House, Piccadilly, 78
Downing Street, No. 10, 75, 76
Elephant and Castle, Old, Newington Butts, 1
Emanuel Hospital, Westminster, 73, 74
George Inn, Southwark, 8, 9
George Inn, Old, Trinity Square, 24
Great St. Helen's, Entrance to, 28
Great St. Helen's, Old houses in, 30
Great St. Helen's, No. 9, Staircase of, 27
Great St. Helen's, No. 10, 29
Great Winchester Street, No. 23, 38, 39
Green Dragon Inn, St. Andrew's Hill, 52
Green Man and Still, Cow Cross Street, Clerkenwell, 59
Hare Court, Temple, 66
King's Head Inn, Southwark, 11, 12
Lansdowne House, from Berkeley Square, 79
Laurence Poultney Hill, Nos. 1 and 2, 55
Nag's Head Inn, Whitcomb Street, 72
Nag's Head Inn Yard, Southwark, 10
Nevill's Court, Fetter Lane, House in, 70
New Exchange Court, Strand, 71
Old Bell Inn, Holborn, 61
One Swan Inn, Bishopsgate Street Without, 35
Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane, 46
Paddington Green, Old thatched cottage near, 85
Paul's Pier, View from, 51
Pindar, Sir Paul, House of, Bishopsgate Street Without, 34
Queen's Head Inn, Southwark, 13, 14
Rising Sun, Wych Street, 68
Royal Mail Tavern, Noble Street, 45
St. Paul's Churchyard, Dean's Court, 48
St. Paul's Churchyard laid out as a garden, 49
St. Paul's, Deanery of, 47
Saracen's Head Inn, Aldgate, 21
Scarsdale House, Kensington, 82
Schomberg House, Pall Mall, 77
Sieve Public-house, Minories, 15-18
Sion College, Victoria Embankment, 67
Skinners' Company, Almshouses of the, Mile End Road, 22, 23
Swan and Horseshoe Inn, Montagu Court, 56
Swan with Two Necks, Carter Lane, 50
Tabard Inn, Southwark, 7
Turner's House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 83
Two Brewers Public-house, London Wall, 43
White Hart Inn, Southwark, 2-6