97a SEARLE’S BOAT-HOUSE, STANGATE, LAMBETH.
Watercolour. 14 by 9¾ in.
The famous boat builders, of Eton and Oxford, had an establishment on the Surrey side, much frequented by Westminster schoolboys before the formation of the Embankment and the removal of St. Thomas’s Hospital from High Street, Southwark, to Stangate. It will be seen that the boat-house was just above Westminster Bridge; it was afterwards moved to a point higher up the river. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
97b BUILDINGS ADJOINING LAMBETH CHURCH.
Watercolour. 10 by 6¼ in.
Shows picturesque but tumbledown buildings formerly along the riverside at Lambeth. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
98a ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK.
Watercolour. 9¾ by 7 in.
Originally the church of the Priory of St. Mary Overy, after the Reformation St. Saviour’s parish church, and now Southwark Cathedral. View of the old nave from the west end, shortly before it was replaced by an unsightly nave in 1838-9. This also has disappeared, being rebuilt from the designs of the late Sir Arthur Blomfield. The choir and tower were “restored” 1822-5, by George Gwilt.