The Prince's Wardrobe

Has been described as a Certain Palace (Royal)

There are no visible remains

NameThe Prince's Wardrobe
Alternative NamesWardrupe; Pallace in the Old Jewry
Historic CountryLondon and Middlesex
Modern AuthorityCity and County of the City of London
1974 AuthorityGreater London
Civil ParishCity Of London

Occupied a site between the Old Jewry and Ironmonger Lane. A store and occasional residence of the Black Prince as Duke of Cornwall and then a dower house of his widow. Repaired through C15 and C16 but ruinous by 1603.

Aboue this lanes end, vpon Fishstreet hill is one great house, for the most part builded of stone, which pertained sometime to Ed. the black prince, son to Ed. the 3. who was in his life time lodged there. It is now altered to a common hosterie, hauing the blacke bell for a signe (Stow)

Not scheduled

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County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTQ325812
Latitude51.5138702392578
Longitude-0.0917700007557869
Eastings532500
Northings181200
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Books

  • Renn, Derek., 2014, 'The other towers of London' in Hidden histories and records of antiquity; essays on Saxon and medieval London for John Clark, curator emeritus, Museum of London (London and Middlesex Archaeology Society Special Paper 17) p. 32-5
  • Colvin, H. and Foister, S. (eds), 1996, The Panorama of London c. 1544 by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde (London Topographical Society 151) V40
  • Schofield, J., 1995, Medieval London Houses (Yale University Press) p. 208 No. 149
  • Lobel, M.D. (ed), 1989, The City of London from prehistoric times to c.1520 British Atlas of Historic Towns Vol. 3 (Oxford University Press) p. 84 online copy
  • Keene, D.J. and Harding, Vanessa, 1987, 'St. Martin Pomary 95/8-12' Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane p. 159-68 online transcription
  • Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol. 2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p. 981-2
  • Sharp, Margaret, 1930, 'The Household of the Black Prince' in Tout, T.F., Chapters in Mediaeval Administrative History (Manchester: The University press) Vol. 5 p. 352n5, 354
  • Heath, J.B., 1854, Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London (London) p. 7 online copy

Antiquarian

  • Stype, John, 1720, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster Vol. 1 Bk2 p. 180 online copy
  • Kingsford, C.L. (ed), 1908, A Survey of London, by John Stow: Reprinted from the text of 1603 Vol. 1 p. 211-216 online copy

Journals

  • Davis, Philip, 2010-11, 'Crenellated town houses in Medieval England' Castle Studies Group Journal Vol. 24 p. 270-91
  • Honeybourne, M.B., 1965, London Topographical Record Vol. 22 p. 61-2
  • Kingsford, C.L., 1917, 'Historical Notes on Medieval London Houses (Part 2)' London Topographical Record Vol. 11 p. 79-81
  • 1833, 'Notes' Gentlemans' Magazine Vol. 153 p. 69 online copy