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The London inn of the abbots of Waltham: a revised reconstruction of a medieval town house in Lovat Lane

Derek Gadd


Recently demolished walls at 24-5 Lovat Lane are redated to the post-medieval period. They are not – as was suggested when they were first exposed in 1950 – part of the late 12th or early 13th-century inn of the abbots of Waltham.

The medieval inn itself is described in a survey made in 1540, immediately after the Dissolution. This document is reassessed in the light of the new evidence, and a schematic reconstruction of the building is proposed.

[Transactions 34 (1983), pp 171 – 7; abstract by Francis Grew, 18-Oct-1996]

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