"Among
the many fine buildings of London, which, from the extreme unfavourableness
of their situation, may be said in a manner to be thrown away, we must
rank the College of Physicians. Placed in a narrow, dirty lane, should
the stranger by chance stumble on this pile, he can only contemplate
it at the risk of being crushed, or at all events bespattered by the
wheels of the carriages which are continually passing."
A
sad spot indeed for a beautiful building designed by Sir
Christopher Wren in the late seventeenth century. Perhaps tired
of the dirty lane, the Physicians removed themselves and their College
to a site on Trafalgar Square in 1825. They have since moved on yet
again.
