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Bishop Sarah sits in the House of Lords as one of the Lords Spirituals, having been introduced on 24th May 2018. She was sworn as a member of the Privy Council on 14 March 2018, and became Dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal on 11 July 2019.
The bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England 's Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury. By custom the Bishop is also Dean of the Chapel Royal since 1723.
- What Was There before?
- Edward Woodroofe
- William Sancroft
- Fourth Class Mansion House
- Coach House and Stables
- Eighteenth-Century Renovations
- Nineteenth-Century Renovations
- Second World War
- Commercial Premises
- Bishop of London Residence
The exact form of the pre-Civil War Deanery House at St Paul’s is uncertain. Described by John Stow in 1598 (English historian who wrote the Survey of Londonin the sixteenth century) as a ‘fair old house’ and dating originally from c.1145 with later extensions and renovations. During the Civil War, Parliament decreed its temporary use as a prison i...
For a long time – centuries in fact – the building was attributed to Sir Christopher Wren. But more recent research now thinks the original architect was the surveyor Edward Woodroofe, who was an assistant surveyor to Wren on the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral. It was Woodroofe who signed the building contract, but it is thought Wren may have be...
William Sancroft became Dean of St Paul’s in 1664, and it was he who commissioned the new Deanery House. Sancroft was a Cambridge-educated priest and deft clerical administrator with a strong interest in architecture. In 1650, when still at Cambridge, he sent home for his copy of Sir Henry Wotton’s The Elements of Architecture, first published in 1...
The building was designed to have equal status to leading City merchants’ houses. There were four classes of mansion house allowed in London after the Great Fire, and this was the fourth class. Stylistically, Sancroft’s new Deanery House did not depart radically from the domestic architecture of the City of Londonin the 1650s and 1660s. The buildin...
To the side of the house stood its stables and a coach house which also ran along Carter Lane. These buildings were replaced by a new Choir Schoolin the mid-1870s. The Choir School moved to a new building east of St Paul’s Cathedral, in New Change, in 1967. The building is now a youth hostel and has been used to house the homeless since the pandemi...
Thomas Newton, Dean from 1768 to 1782, made some alterations, including reforming the front courtyard with a new wall and paired gates on either side of a central doorway, in place of the single entrance of the 1670s.
Works mentioned in the early nineteenth century include the installation of a water closet, the fixing of several marble chimneypieces, and the replacing of the hearth in the library. In 1821 the entrance hall and staircase were painted, and grained wainscot (oak) and that mahogany graining was also executed in the library.
Following bomb damage in the Second World War, the Deanery House was restored and modernized in the 1950s by W. Godfrey Allen, then Surveyor of St Paul’s – who believed at the time that the house had been designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
In 1977 it was decided that the Deanery House would no longer be the residence of the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Major structural work was carried out in 1981–82, both in the basement and the roof, to give the house greater stability. An extension was built to the rear, which, at the time, was considered sympathetic to the original house. The bui...
In 1992 the Bank moved out, and the house was empty until 1996 when the Bishop of London took it over as no commercial or private tenant could be found. It then became the residence of the Bishop of London, who previously resided at Fulham Palace. In 1996 a flatwas created in the attic for the then new Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and his fa...
- A Deanery is where you would expect the Dean of a Cathedral or College to live, and this was the case for the Dean of St Pauls who lived here from 1154 until 1976 when the Dean moved to a more comfortable house.
- During the English Civil War Parliament decided the house should be used as a temporary prison. It was treated so badly it was demolished in the mid-1650s and replaced with tenements and shops which were burnt down during the great Fire of London in 1666.
- For many years it was thought that Sir Christopher Wren designed the Deanery house but it was more likely to have been Edward Woodroofe who is known to have surveyed the site and produced an estimate in 1669 to rebuild it.
- The cost of building the Deanery plus a stables, coach house and wood house was £2792 1s 2d when it was completed in 1673. Great value for a house that has stood for almost 350 years.
Built in 1735 and added to in 1812, The Old Deanery was originally called Glebe House and was the residence of Rev. H. Newland. It was built with the aid of a gift of £800 from the late Board of First Fruits in 1805.
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The Old Deanery blends country house grandeur, with city centre convenience, and small-town charm. The Old Deanery has 11 individually styled bedrooms. Stay the night and enjoy views of either the lovely garden, or striking Cathedral. Then wake to an indulgent home-made breakfast banquet.
