Coldharbour, City of London

For other places in London called "Coldharbour", see Coldharbour (disambiguation).

Cold Harbour

Coldharbour, Cold Harbour, Cold Harborough, Cold Herbergh, or Cold Herberge was an area of the City of London during the Middle Ages. It was in the former parishes of All-Hallows-the-Less and All-Hallows-the-Great (now Dowgate Ward). The names originated with two neighbouring medieval estates. ^[1]

One of the estates, Coldharbour House, belonged to the Dukes of Exeter and was also, briefly, a College of Heralds.

From the 13th century to the mid-17th century, the name Coldharbour referred the area between Upper Thames Street and the Thames, to the east of Steelyard (on the later site of Cannon Street Station). It was a liberty until 1608, when James I brought it within the jurisdiction of the City of London. ^[2] The area was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. ^[3]

Coldharbour and the City of London from Southwark in Elizabethan times

Coldharbour House

Coldharbour House or Cold Inn was a medieval mansion house on the north bank of the River Thames just upstream from London Bridge and close to the site of today's Cannon Street station.

The house was located in Upper Thames Street, a narrow riverside lane, along with other noblemen's mansions. The house was first mentioned in the reign of Edward II as belonging to the knight Sir John Abel. ^[4] In 1334 it was bought by the merchant draper Sir John de Pulteney, who was four times Lord Mayor of London in the 1330s, and became known as Pulteney's Inn. At the end of the 14th century, it belonged to John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, a half-brother of King Richard II, whom he entertained in the house. ^[5]

In 1410, King Henry IV granted the property to his son, the future King Henry V. Richard III gave Coldharbour to the College of Arms, of which he was patron, for storing records and to provide living space. Henry VII took possession of the house away from the college and gave it to his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby. The house later became the property of the Earls of Shrewsbury, and its name was changed to Shrewsbury House.

Coldharbour was either dismantled by the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury ^[4] or destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, although a later building with the same name, constructed on the same site, was used as the hall of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen until 1778. ^[5]

See also

• List of demolished buildings and structures in London

Notes

1. Harding 1980, p. 11.
2. James I 1884, pp. 142–143.
3. Besant 1894, pp. 148, 191–192.
4. Thornbury, Walter. 'Upper Thames Street.' Old and New London: Volume 2. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878. pp.17-28. British History Online. Web. 9 June 2015
5. "Besant, Walter. "Palatial Examples", Historic London". Archived from the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2012.

References

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• Besant, Walter (1999). Nash Ford, David (ed.). "Medieval London: A City of Palaces Part 2". Britannica Internet Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
• Darton, William (1829). A companion to Darton's Plan of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. London: William Darton.

• Harben, Henry A, ed. (1918a). "City of London Brewery". A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

• Harben, Henry A, ed. (1918b). "Coldharbour". A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

• Harding, Vanessa (1980). "The Two Coldharbours of the City of London". In Saunders, Ann Loreille (ed.). London Topographical Record. Vol. XXIV. London: London Topographical Society. pp. 11–29.

• James I (1884). "The Second Chapter of King James I, 20 Sept., A.D. 1608". In de Gray Birch, Walter (ed.). The Historical Charters and Constitutional Documents of the City of London. Vol. IV. London: Whiting and Co. pp. 139–150. Retrieved 13 March 2012.

• Lodge, Edmund (1716). Illustrations of British history, biography, and manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth and James I. Vol. I (2nd ed.). London: John Chidley. Retrieved 11 March 2012.

• No author (1716). London and Its Environs Described. Vol. II. London: R. and J. Dodsley. Retrieved 11 March 2012.{{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)

• Noorthouck, John (1773). "Richard II to the Wars of the Roses". A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark. Vol. Book I. London: R. Baldwin. pp. 75–94. Retrieved 13 March 2012.

• Pepys, Samuel (1894). "30 October 1662". In Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (ed.). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vol. IV. New York: George E. Crospus. pp. 355–357. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

• Zettersten, Louis (1926a). "COLD HARBOUR LANE". City Street Names (3rd ed.). London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd. Retrieved 13 March 2012.

• Zettersten, Louis (1926b). "LAURENCE POUNTNEY HILL and LAURENCE POUNTNEY LANE". City Street Names (3rd ed.). London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd. Retrieved 13 March 2012.

See also

• Watermen's stairs

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