Lamb's Chapel

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

,-At the north-west corner of Monkwell Street, in Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within (det.) (Elmes, 1831).


Founded by William Lamb, a cloth worker, to whom Henry VIII. granted the site of St. James' Chapel in the Wall (q.v.) after the dissolution of Garendon Monastery, to which it had been a cell (L. and P. H. VIII. XVIII (1), 201).

South-west and south of the site of St. James' Chapel in Rocque, 1746.

Bequeathed by Lamb to the Clothworkers' Co. 1577 (S. 318).

Rebuilt about 1825 by the Company with a row of almshouses. Pulled down 1872 and site built over (N. and Q. 11th S. VI. p. 357), quoting MS. Collection Guildhall, 1159/1, 2, and See (Gent. Mag. Lib. XV. 288-91).

Re-erected in Prebend Square, Islington (ib. 435).

See Cripplegate Hermitage.

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