London Inn of the Bishop of Ely

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Ely House; Ely Place

In the civil parish of Camden.
In the historic county of Middlesex (Modern Authority of London Borough of Camden, 1974 county of Greater London).

London Inn of the Bishop of Ely. Ely house in Holborn, site given by John Kirkby (1286-90) but built by Bishop Thomas Arundel in C14. Plan made by Grose before demolition showing two-storeyed chapel on north side of a cloister with hall and ancillaries on its south side. Only the chapel survives.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ313816

Sources of information, references and further reading

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p233
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p175-6
Schofield, J., 1994, Medieval London House (Yale University Press) p191-2 No106
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby) p23, 103
Aston, M., 1967, Thomas Arundel: a Study of Church Life in the Reign of Richard II (Oxford)
Pevsner, N., 1952 [1969 reprint], Buildings of England; London, except the cities of London and Westminster Vol2
Williams, E., 1927, Early Holborn and the Legal Quarter in London Vol1 p349, 352-3, 386-9
RCHME, 1925, Inventory of Historic Monuments in London Vol2: West London (HMSO) p44-5

Journal Articles

Kingsford, C.L., 1916, London Topographical Record Vol10 p44-144
Keene, C.R., 1881, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Vol5 p494-503

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/midlesexeng.html#mids21]
Stow, J., 1598, [3edn Kingsford, C.L. (ed), 1971] Survey of London Vol2 p35-6

Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)

Berber, B. and Pitt, K., 1990, 'Archaeological Excavations at 33 Ely Place' DGLA report
Honeybourne, M.B., 1929, The extent and Value of the Property in London and Southwark Occupied by the Religious Houses (including the prebends of St Paul's and St Martin le Grand), the Inns of the Bishops and Abbots and the Churches and Churchyards, Before the Dissolution of the Monaseries (Unpub MA Thesis, Univesity of London) p349, 352, 386-9

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