The Savoy, on the Strand

These two views show exterior and interior aspects of the hospital of the Savoy as it was in the very early nineteenth century. There was once an ancient palace on the site, famously belonging to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. It was burned down during the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 and on its site built a hospital for the poor in the early sixteenth century. The hospital had a beautiful chapel, shown above in the interior view and on this page for an exterior view. Since the later nineteenth century the chapel has been rebuilt and restored many times. The majority of the sixteenth-century buildings belonging to the hospital were demolished to make way for the approaches to the new Waterloo Bridge built 1816-1820.

See a view of the Savoy from the Thames, and another view c. 1809 of the Palace and Chapel surrounded by shabby tenements.