Suffolk Place

Suffolk Place was a mansion located on the west side of Borough High Street in Southwark belonging to the Dukes of Suffolk. It was built in the fifteenth century and rebuilt in fine Renaissance style in 1522 by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and boyhood friend of King Henry VIII of England.[1][2] In about 1536-1543, it was taken over by the King Henry VIII who exchanged it with Brandon for Norwich Place on the Strand, London.

King Henry VIII granted it to his wife Jane Seymour in June 1537, but when she died the following October, it reverted to the King. In 1545, the house was converted into a mint.[3] It was occupied by Queen Mary I of England and her new husband Philip II of Spain on the night before their state entry into London in 1554. This was possibly the time when it was depicted by Anthony van den Wyngaerde in his Panorama of London, to the left of Borough High Street in the foreground of the picture.[4] It was demolished in 1557 and the area was built over with small tenements, which became known as The Mint, a notorious rookery.[5][6] A modern office block called Brandon House at 180 Borough High Street (opposite Borough tube station) now occupies the site of Suffolk Place.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Jerry White (2007) London in the Nineteenth Century: 9
  2. ↑ Felix Barker and Peter Jackson (1974) London: 2000 Years of a City and its People: 52
  3. ↑ "Mint Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 521
  4. ↑ Felix Barker and Peter Jackson (1974) London: 2000 Years of a City and its People: 48-52
  5. ↑ "Mint Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 521
  6. ↑ Jerry White (2007) London in the Nineteenth Century: 9-10
  7. ↑ "Borough High Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 78

Coordinates: 51°30′5.5″N 0°5′36″W / 51.501528°N 0.09333°W / 51.501528; -0.09333


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