In 1489 King Henry VII donated oaks to the friary for the reconstruction of the friar's dormitory.
The Victoria Embankment stretches along the north bank of the river west from Blackfriars to Westminster Bridge.
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Edward I gave permission to rebuild London's city wall, which lay between the river and Ludgate Hill, around their area.
Wormald, Jenny, Court, Kirk, and Community: Scotland 1470-1625, (Edinburgh, 1981)
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The Irish themed pub was named after Blackfriars which was mentioned in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.
Together with its competitor, Paul's Children, the Blackfriars company produced plays by a number of the most talented young dramatists of Jacobean literature, among them Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston.
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As Burbage built, however, a petition from the residents of the wealthy neighbourhood persuaded the Privy Council to forbid playing there; the letter was signed even by Lord Hunsdon, patron of Burbage's company and Richard Field, the Blackfriars printer and hometown neighbour of William Shakespeare.
Borough Road railway station was a railway station in Borough Road, Southwark, south London, England, on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, which was first opened in 1864 on the railway's City Branch, and which crossed the River Thames and ran up through Blackfriars to terminate in the City of London.
In 1609, however, the two collaborated on Philaster, which was performed by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre and at Blackfriars.
He was responsible for many of the city's iconic warehouses and his commissions include Blackfriars House, headquarters of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation and Arkwright House, headquarters of the English Sewing Cotton Company.
He pursued his interest in the rise of secularisation and secular culture, attending seminars by the sociologist of religion and anthropologist Peter Clarke, studying at the Las Casas Institute and taking classes at Blackfriars.
The main approach road ran from the end of Deansgate near Manchester Cathedral, passing above the River Irwell and Chapel Street; a second approach road led up from Blackfriars Road.
In June 1600 Mary led a dance in the masque celebrating the fashionable wedding of Lady Anne Russell, granddaughter of the Earl of Bedford, with Henry Somerset, later created Marquess of Worcester, at Lord Cobham's residence in Blackfriars.
Born in Homebush, New South Wales, he was educated at Blackfriars Correspondence School (1934–42) and Sydney Grammar School (1942–46), receiving his Intermediate and leaving certificates.
The Royal Wardrobe (also known as the "Great Wardrobe") was a building located on what is now Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, near Blackfriars.
The great City of London townhouse of the Berkeleys, known as "Berkeley's Inn", was at Puddle Dock by Baynard's Castle, close to the Blackfriars Monastery.