Christ's Hospital, ca.1879

From: Henry Dixon & Son

RA Collection: Art

"These photographs show the entrance to the Hospital from Christ Church Passage, Newgate Street, and the front overlooking the old burial ground of Christ Church, formerly the nave of the great church of the Grey Friars' Monastery. This portion of the hospital was erected soon after the Great Fire - in 1682 according to the inscription over the gateway, - by Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London, also a great benefactor of St. Thomas's Hospital. His magnificent house on the east side of the Old Jewry, long since destroyed, was the first house of the London Institution."

The above description, by Alfred Marks, was taken from the letterpress which accompanies the photographs.