OLD MANSION HOUSE
DEMOLITION OF GLD RELIG. The Old Mansion House, in Cheapside,. the .official home of the Lord Mayors of London hefqre the present Mansion House was built, is being demolished. It was built hy Sir Christopher Wren just after the Great Frre, and was fi«st used hy Sir William Turner, LorA Mayor from 1668 to 1669. Since the present Mansion House was built it has heen used for commercial purposes, and it is now to make room for banking premises. As much as possibJe of the old building will he preserved. A wonderful carved staircase, which has served since the building Was erected, _ has heen carefully dismantled asd will be re-erected in the new building. Tlie stone frontage has heen sold. Th Gruildhall authorities have made complete scale drawings of the building and its carvings, to he kept as. records. .
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 75, 1 May 1930, Page 13
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142OLD MANSION HOUSE Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 75, 1 May 1930, Page 13
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