The White Conduit House was a building in Islington , London. From the late 17th century, it was a leisure resort away from the city centre; it was demolished in 1849.
19-472: There were springs and conduit-heads in the area in the medieval period. A conduit house on the site originally supplied water to Greyfriars Monastery at Newgate . From the 1400s, it also supplied water for a Carthusian priory. It was repaired in 1641 by Thomas Sutton , founder of the London Charterhouse on the site of the priory, to which it supplied water until about 1654, when water was taken from
38-478: A favourite burial place for those of high rank and status. Margaret was buried there, as was Isabella, widow of Edward II]; the heart of Eleanor of Provence , wife of Henry III, was buried there as well. Built in the gothic style, it was completed in 1348, and was the second-largest in medieval London, measuring 300 feet (91 m) long by 89 feet (27 m) across. The monastery was dissolved in 1538 by Thomas Chapman, an agent of Thomas Cromwell . On 12 November
57-737: A number of tenements in the city in Cheapside , All Hallows Honey Lane and St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street Joynier used some of his wealth to pay for the entire construction of the Greyfriars chapel and contributed two hundred pounds towards construction of other monastic buildings on the site in Saint Nicholas in the Shambles . Joynier's support for the Friars spanned the latter two decades of his life. Joynier died in about 1248. This article about
76-461: Is supposed to have built the nave, and given timber for the altars. In 1301–1302 Queen Margaret ( Marguerite of France, born 1282 , second wife of King Edward I ) spent 60 marks on land in the parish of St Nicholas for the Grey Friars. The Choir was built on this site. She funded the construction of the church, spending 2,000 marks on the work before her death in 1318, at which point it
95-613: The Greyfriars was a Conventual Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London by Newgate in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles . It was the second Franciscan religious house to be founded in the country. The establishment included a conventual church that was one of the largest in London; a studium or regional university; and an extensive library of logical and theological texts. It
114-529: The New River . From the late 17th century, the site was a leisure resort away from the city centre. In 1754, the White Conduit House was advertised as having for its fresh attractions a long walk, a circular fish-pond, a number of pleasant shady arbours, hot loaves and butter, coffee, tea, and other liquors, unadulterated cream, and a handsome long room, with "copious prospects, and airy situation". Cricket
133-579: The Tuesday after The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. They settled in London in the summer of 1225, after John Iwyn, a wealthy businessman, bought a plot of land for them in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles (butchers' quarter). The land was just inside the city wall, which at that time was next to open country. Three years later, Joce Fitz Piers gave the Grey Friars his property in Stinking Lane. Over
152-531: The chapel and also gave two hundred pounds towards the cost of other buildings. Historian Charles Lethbridge Kingsford , who published the London Greyfriars' register and wrote a history of the site in the same volume, concludes from the sums of money spent on building work in this period that the friary would have been "of a modest kind". Further work began on the church towards the end of the 13th century. Henry le Walleis (d. 1302), another mayor of London,
171-565: The city's privileges and refused to admit Simon FitzMary, appointed by the king without election. However, these incidents did not deter Joynier's trade with the royal household or relationship with the court. Joynier supplied wine to the king in 1241 and was appointed as one of the custodians of the royal treasure in the Tower of London in 1242. Apart from banking and trade, Joynier also had income from estates in Middlesex and Cambridgeshire. He also had
190-458: The house signed a deed of surrender, probably composed by Chapman. The Friars were made to confess that "the perfeccion of Christian liuyng dothe not conciste in ... weryng of a grey cootte, disgeasing our selffe aftyr straunge fassions, dokynge, nodyngs and bekynge, in gurdyng our selffes wythe a gurdle full of knots, and other like Papisticall ceremonyes" After the Surrender, some of the houses on
209-590: The next 130 years Londoners and others made 25 further donations of land to the friars, ending with Queen Isabella 's donation of a tenement in 1353 or 1354. In 1229 King Henry III gave the Conventual Franciscans of London oak to build their house. By 1243 there were eighty friars in residence, and by 1258 they had extended the site on the North and Westside. The original church was built with money provided by William Joynier ( mayor of London in 1239), who built
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#1732851545744228-470: The site were converted for private use, and the church was closed and used as a store-house for treasure looted from the French. In 1547, the king gave the church, the buildings called "le Fratrye," "le Librarye," "le Dorter," and "le Chapterhouse," and the ground called "le Great Cloyster," and "le Little Cloyster" to the City of London . The church, which had suffered damage and looting, now called Christ Church
247-521: Was a rich 13th-century merchant and Sheriff of the City of London who served as Mayor of London from 1239 to 1240. In 1204 Joynier was instructed to investigate the condition of Newgate Prison and Holborn Bridge and authorise repairs. He was able to make loans to Henry III from a young age. From 1219 Joynier supplied the royal household with luxury goods and built an extensive trading network that extended from Scotland and Ireland to Poitou . Joynier
266-512: Was an important intellectual centre in the early fourteenth century, rivalled only by Oxford University in status. Members of the community at that time included William of Ockham , Walter Chatton and Adam Wodeham . It flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth century but was dissolved in 1538 at the instigation of Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries . Christ's Hospital
285-644: Was founded in the old conventual buildings, and the church was rebuilt completely by Sir Christopher Wren as Christ Church Greyfriars after the original church was almost completely destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. The building now standing on the site, designed by Arup Group Limited , is currently occupied by Merrill Lynch . It was named after the friars ' practice of wearing grey habits . The Franciscan Order first arrived in England in September 1224, on
304-472: Was made Sheriff of the City of London in 1223. He was subsequently elected to serve as 12th Mayor of London between 1239 and 1240. Joynier's relationship with the monarch was not always an easy one. The fine rolls of Henry III for 1224 contain an order for Joynier's arrest in order to recover possessions given to Joynier by the disgraced Falkes de Breauté . Joynier had a more serious conflict with Henry in 1239 when, whilst serving as Mayor, he defended
323-625: Was played on a nearby field, White Conduit Fields ; a club was formed here, the White Conduit Club , that eventually became Marylebone Cricket Club . The house was rebuilt in 1828, the new building containing a ballroom. By 1833, the area was regarded as less respectable than formerly. The building was demolished in 1849; a pub now stands on the site, at the corner of Barnsbury Road and Dewey Road. 51°32′05″N 0°06′40″W / 51.53472°N 0.11111°W / 51.53472; -0.11111 Greyfriars, London In London ,
342-421: Was still unfinished. Queen Isabella , the wife of Edward II (r. 1327–1377), was responsible for completing the work, spending around £700. The total expenditure on the new church was about £2700, a huge sum. There were six chapels within the church, eight other altars and many statues and images of saints (at least eight are documented, in addition to those in the chapels and on the altars). The church became
361-577: Was to be the church of a new parish formed by joining St Nicholas and St Ewen . It was re-opened on 30 January 1547. It was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Christ's Hospital ( Blue Coat School ) was founded for orphans in some of the old friary buildings in 1553 by Edward VI . The school relocated to Horsham in West Sussex in 1902. 51°30′58″N 0°05′59″W / 51.5162°N 0.0996°W / 51.5162; -0.0996 William Joynier Sir William Joynier
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