Sir Paul Pindar Kt
Her Majesty's embassador to the Turkish Emperor
Anno DM 1611 and 9 years resident
Faithful in negotiations foreign and domestick
Eminent for piety charity loyalty and prudence
An inhabitant 26 years and a bountiful benefactor
To this Parish
He dyed the 22d August 1650
Aged 84 years.
From 1787 or earlier the main portion of Pindar's house, here depicted, was used as a tavern.
(1014 × 7) D. 36-1896.
35. The One Swan Inn, Bishopsgate Street Without, 1890 (Black and white).
Another house destroyed by the Great Eastern Railway Company, about the same time as that last described, was the One Swan Inn, Bishopsgate Street Without. It had no special history, but was an old place of call for carriers and waggons, and survived its companions, the Two Swans hard by, and the better-known Four Swans, Bishopsgate Street Within, the site of which is now marked by a modern tavern. The yard of the One Swan Inn was of considerable size. A picturesque wool warehouse had stood on the vacant space shown in the sketch, to the left-hand side. This latter building had been destroyed in 1886.
(938 × 538) D. 37-1896.
36. Staircase of No. 10, Austin Friars, 1895 (Water-colour).
Early in 1896 the interesting house, No. 10, ceased to be. It was in the precinct of Austin Friars, on the north side of the Old Friars' Church, the nave of which has for centuries been handed over to the Dutch congregation in London. As appeared from a date on a rain-pipe, it had been in existence at least as early as the year 1704. The porch was approached by steps; ascending these, one saw in front a spacious staircase, so typical of the period that it is here portrayed. This staircase was panelled throughout, and was especially noticeable from its ceiling, which was painted on plaster with allegorical figures, in the style of Sir James Thornhill. The house No. 11 formed part of the same block of buildings. While these were in process of destruction a Gothic arch was exposed to view, the upper part of which had been in a room on the ground floor of No. 10, incorporated in the east wall of the house. From the character of the mouldings it appeared to date from the fifteenth century, and had no doubt belonged to the cloisters of the Augustine Friars. Other mediæval remains were found, and a paper on the subject was read by Mr. Allen S. Walker, before the London and Middlesex Archæological Society.
(978 × 738) D. 77-1896.
37. Arms of the Olmius Family on Mantelpiece at No. 21, Austin Friars, 1888 (Black and white).