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In 1590 the open space of Charterhouse Yard was underthe ownership and management of the Charterhouse governors. There were 24 trees, and the chapel of the VirginMary and All Saints still survived. (fn. 31) When the chapel wasdemolished in 1615–16, the causeway leading to it and theground within the square were levelled. (fn. 32) Ten years latera footpath, flanked by wooden railings, was made acrossthe square to the main gate of the Charterhouse. (fn. 33) Theeffect of these improvements was t...

Before 1690 the east side of Charterhouse Yard had thelargest houses, with ample gardens stretching eastwards asfar as the backs of houses in Aldersgate Street, with whichsome of them were connected (Ill. 333). The freehold ofmost of the land here south of Rutland House belongedfrom the early seventeenth century to the Heneage andFinch families. It...

Occupying the north side of the square between theCharterhouse and Rutland Place is a small group ofhouses, Nos 12, 12a and 13–14. Though they all look likeearly nineteenth-century buildings (Ill. 355), Nos 13–14,formerly two houses but now thrown together, belong inpart to the late seventeenth century. They once rangedcontinuous to the west with a...

This is the side of Charterhouse Square most intimatelylinked with the Charterhouse, which owned most of thefreeholds. To the west of No. 14 there is now a gap, filleduntil the Second World War by buildings of theCharterhouse fronting Chapel Court. Where a corner ofthis court comes close to the square (Ill. 357), the roadwayangles southwards and an...

Historically, the west side of the square was the least eligible or coherent, and the least-often illustrated. Therehave been three main phases of redevelopment, in 1700,1885–6, and 1956–62. The present building known as Nos23–28 Charterhouse Square occupies the whole of thisblock, bounded north and south by branches ofCharterhouse Street and on th...

The plots on the south side of the square today areshallow, particularly at the west end, because of the alignment of the railway cutting directly behind, occupied byBarbican Station. The existing buildings, Nos 33–43, areall of the warehouse type. They date from 1876–7, following the construction of the railway and the projectionof the new through...