St Saviour’s Lane leads off
Magdalen Street and runs parallel to St Crispin’s
Road. Houses ranging in date from about the sixteenth to
the nineteenth century that formerly lined the lane have
all gone: one side now being used as a public car park
and the other being occupied by High-Tech House, which
was built in 1938 as Mansfields’ cardboard box
factory. Before taking over this factory Mansfields had
occupied as their offices No 24, a converted Georgian
mansion called Pendleton House. As in most houses
of this period, the main external feature was the front
doorway (pictured below), in this case not of wood
but of plaster, with rusticated jambs and consoles
supporting a pediment. The door recess was square-headed
with a large keystone moulded into the shape of a human
head above the lintel but below the pediment. An almost
identical doorway, though not quite so tall, may still be
seen at 54 Pottergate.
Pendleton Housetook
its name from Mrs Elizabeth Pendleton, a widow who owned
property here and in St Stephen’s parish in the
seventeenth century. The historian Francis Blomefield
gives details of her will, first read in court on 23rd
June 1677, by which the rents from her houses were to be
used for a variety of charitable purposes. Some of the
money was to go towards clothing the poor and needy with
winter garments, while other sums were to be spent in
binding out poor lads or as loans to young tradesmen. The
“overplus of her personals” was bequeathed to
the Girls’ Hospital, and under the same year
Blomefield noted “This year, a Ring and several
Diamonds, and £190, the Overplus of the personal estate
or Mrs Eliz. Pendleton, was received by the treasurer [of
the Girls’ Hospital] according to her Will”.
St Saviour’s Lane
St Saviour’s Lane leads off
Magdalen Street and runs parallel to St Crispin’s
Road. Houses ranging in date from about the sixteenth to
the nineteenth century that formerly lined the lane have
all gone: one side now being used as a public car park
and the other being occupied by High-Tech House, which
was built in 1938 as Mansfields’ cardboard box
factory. Before taking over this factory Mansfields had
occupied as their offices No 24, a converted Georgian
mansion called Pendleton House. As in most houses
of this period, the main external feature was the front
doorway (pictured below), in this case not of wood
but of plaster, with rusticated jambs and consoles
supporting a pediment. The door recess was square-headed
with a large keystone moulded into the shape of a human
head above the lintel but below the pediment. An almost
identical doorway, though not quite so tall, may still be
seen at 54 Pottergate.
Pendleton House took
its name from Mrs Elizabeth Pendleton, a widow who owned
property here and in St Stephen’s parish in the
seventeenth century. The historian Francis Blomefield
gives details of her will, first read in court on 23rd
June 1677, by which the rents from her houses were to be
used for a variety of charitable purposes. Some of the
money was to go towards clothing the poor and needy with
winter garments, while other sums were to be spent in
binding out poor lads or as loans to young tradesmen. The
“overplus of her personals” was bequeathed to
the Girls’ Hospital, and under the same year
Blomefield noted “This year, a Ring and several
Diamonds, and £190, the Overplus of the personal estate
or Mrs Eliz. Pendleton, was received by the treasurer [of
the Girls’ Hospital] according to her Will”.
St Saviour’s Alley (right)