Greyfriars' conduit head in Queen Square
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Greyfriars' conduit head in Queen Square
Greyfriars' conduit head in Queen Square
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SC_PHL_01_166_2822c (Collage 74207)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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A view of historic seventeenth-century names carved into the wall of the medieval underground passage, i.e. conduit head beneath the garden of 20 Queen Square, Holborn (an eighteenth-century Georgian house which was occupied by the Chalfont House Settlement). The conduit head was used to house and supply water to London's Greyfriars' monastery. The conduit head was once called the Chimney or Devil's Conduit. In 1927 the conduit head was removed and re-built at New River Head. The house at number 20 no longer exists; part of The President Hotel, Guildford Street, now sits on the site.
A view of historic seventeenth-century names carved into the wall of the medieval underground passage, i.e. conduit head beneath the garden of 20 Queen Square, Holborn (an eighteenth-century Georgian house which was occupied by the Chalfont House Settlement). The conduit head was used to house and supply water to London's Greyfriars' monastery. The conduit head was once called the Chimney or Devil's Conduit. In 1927 the conduit head was removed and re-built at New River Head. The house at number 20 no longer exists; part of The President Hotel, Guildford Street, now sits on the site.
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