| Art |
Westminster Abbey |
Memorials to, and sculpures by, Huguenots. |
Effigies and sculptures by Roubiliac, Poultrain, Le Sueur. Memorials to Field Marshal Ligonier, Isaac Casaubon, David Garrick. |
| Art |
Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, Hackney, London |
Painting of the Roubel Family |
I am related to this family and have seen the original in their collection. They bought it as an example of a family in an interior. The Roubel family were jewellers and clockmakers and had a shop in Wade's Passage in Bath. The father had worked for Paul |
| Art and manufacture |
Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 |
Extensive collection of silk and ceramics. |
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| Artwork & furniture |
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU |
Paintings by Rousseau & Van Somer, Marot-style furniture, carvings by Pelletier, chimney piece by Le Sage, boundary screen by Tigou. |
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| Boughton house & Montagu house |
Northhamptonshire and Bloomsbury respectively |
Houses belonging to Ralph Montagu, 17th century british ambassador to France, Hugenot fan, art lover and lecher |
Montagu house is no more (transformed into the BM) but Boughton Hs is still full of furniture and paintings made by Hugonots |
| Burial ground |
Wandsworth, London SW18 |
"Mount Nod" - burial ground at top of East Hill containing numerous French tombstones." |
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| Burial ground/cemetery |
Bunhill Fields, London |
Early nonconformist cemetery |
Burials of Huguenots were usually in Anglican churchyards thus they appear in parish registers, but some can be found in the early nonconformist cemetery at Bunhill Fields, London. |
| Cabinetmaking |
Private collections of descendants, USA |
Three marquetry Victorian boxes made ca 1900 by Huguenot cabinetmaker James Lefevre Claisse of Bethnal Green |
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| Ceramics from the Chelsea Porcelain Factory |
Brighton and Hove Museum |
The factory was run by Flemish Huguenot Nicholas Sprimont |
www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk |
| Craftsmanship & memorial |
St Paul's Cathedral, London |
Gates by Jean Tijou inside the cathedral. Memorial to Captain Edward Riou RN at the west end of the crypt. |
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| French Church |
Soho Square, London W1 |
The direct descendant of the first foreign Protestant church founded in the City in 1550. |
Modern doorway carving represents the Huguenot refugee experience. |
| Huguenot House |
19 Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EH |
Currently mixed use building, including a community since 1965. (Oscar Garry design.) |
Likely the only building in London named specifically after the Huguenots still standing. In one of the original areas of Huguenots in central London (Orange Street and Oxendon Street, near Soho). Named for the Huguenots and their legacy including safe ho |
| Huguenot trail |
Bristol |
Memorials to Huguenots (who came to Bristol in 1680s) in Lord Mayor's Chapel & nearby nearby St Stephen's Church. |
Also fine ironwork in Huguenot style in both churches. |
| Jamme Masjid |
Corner of Fournier Street and Brick Lane, Spitalfields E1 |
former Protestant chapel known as ‘La Neuve Eglise’ |
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| Orange Street Congregational Chapel |
Orange Street, London WC2 |
The chapel was formerly used for French Protestant worship. |
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| Shop front |
56-58 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields |
Home of silk merchants Jourdain and Rybot, built c. 1756 |
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| Silk |
Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Nr Manchester |
Chapel Silk Wall Panels |
The original silk wall covering was woven in London's Spitalfields around 1700 when George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington, refurbished the chapel in the Presbyterian style, before adding further silk between 1752 and 1754. The decoration behind the altar, |
| Silk weaver's home |
40 Cranbrook Street, Bethnal Green |
Huguenot Silk weaver's family home |
Charles Kingsley, author of 'The Water Babies' lodged next door during his social conditions research into the status of the poor. |
| Silk weaver's patterns woven |
40 Cranbrook Street, Bethnal Green |
Benjamin Hale's predecessors wove 'heavy patterned silk fabrics'. |
A pattern which survived into early 20th century was of a 'Paisley style' design in bright coloured hand-woven silk, also a web of silk ready for the loom in peach colour, and silk shears, worn and used (not scissors which catch the threads in their join |
| Silvercraft |
Actively traded and in private collections |
Silvercraft by Daniel and Charles May, Huguenot family in Blackfriar's, Shoreditch, BG etc mid-1700s-1800s |
Charles and Daniel both appear in Grimwade's Biographies, and their work is actively traded and can be seen online. There is a private collection of Charles May's thimbles in Australia. |
