{"id":753,"date":"2017-10-30T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=753"},"modified":"2017-12-29T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:17:22","slug":"st-mary-le-strand-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=753","title":{"rendered":"St Mary le Strand House"},"content":{"rendered":"
St Mary-le-Strand House, on the south side of the Old Kent Boad, was built in 1811 by the parochial authorities of St Mary-le-Strand, for a workhouse, and was so continued until 1836, when it was let to Messrs. J. A. and W. Lyon, bleachers, on lease. The land on which the house is built forms a portion of seven acres of land granted by Alice Loveday in 1667 to the above parish, and out of the rents and
\nprofits of the said land the authorities were directed to distribute \u00a35 amongst twenty poor widows on the 6th of September in each year ; on which occasion a sermon is preached by the minister, who receives the sum of twenty shillings for his trouble, and ten shillings are divided amongst the reader, clerk, and sexton.<\/div>\n
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The property has a frontage of about 789 feet, and is covered by about thirty houses, now known as St. Mary-le-Strand Place, and vested in the Trustees of the Charity Estates. The workhouse was erected under an Act of Parliament, in which was inserted a clause that no occupier of the workhouse should become chargeable to the<\/p>\n

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parish of Camberwell by virtue of residence within the said building; now that it has ceased to be used as a workhouse it is to be feared that the worthy occupier, Mr. J. A. Lyon, who is himself a poor-law guardian, could readily prove a settlement, but it would be rather difficult to find a more comfortable “settlement” than St Mary-le-Strand workhouse as at present conducted. Camberwell is a model workhouse, but St. Mary of the Old Kent Road is a delightful retreat.<\/p>\n

Ye Parish of Camerwell<\/em> W.H. Blanch (1875)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St Mary-le-Strand House, on the south side of the Old Kent Boad, was built in 1811 by the parochial authorities of St Mary-le-Strand, for a workhouse, and was so continued until 1836, when it was let to Messrs. J. A. and W. Lyon, bleachers, on lease. The land on which the house is built forms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":682,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/753\/revisions\/1248"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}