London - Mansion House -Deyring Honnest undivided back postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  London - Mansion House - undivided back postcard (these were the norm before the rules changed on writing the message in the address side in 1902)
• Publisher:  Deyring-Honnest
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes / condition:  slight crease in one corner

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including an annual dinner, hosted by the Lord Mayor, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer customarily gives a speech – his ""Mansion House Speech"" – about the state of the British economy. The Guildhall is another venue used for important City functions.

Mansion House was built between 1739 and 1752, in the then fashionable Palladian style by the City of London surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder. The site, at the east end of Poultry, had previously been occupied by the ""Stocks Market"", which by the time of its closure was mostly used for the sale of herbs. ^[1] The construction was prompted by a wish to put an end to the inconvenient practice of lodging the Lord Mayor in one of the City Halls. Dance won a design competition over solicited designs from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni, and uninvited submissions by Batty Langley and Isaac Ware.^[2] Construction was slowed by the discovery of springs on the site, which that meant piles had to be sunk to form the foundations.

Mansion House has three main storeys over a rusticated basement. The entrance facade has a portico with six Corinthian columns, supporting a pediment with a tympanum sculpture by Sir Robert Taylor, in the centre of which is a symbolic figure of the City of London trampling on her enemies. ^[3] The building originally had two prominent and unusual attic structures at either end,^[1] which were removed in 1794 and 1843. The building is on a confined site. Sir John Summerson wrote that ""it leaves an impression of uneasily constricted bulk"", adding that ""on the whole, the building is a striking reminder that good taste was not a universal attribute in the eighteenth century"".^[2] The main reception room, the columned ""Egyptian Hall"", was so named because Dance used an arrangement of columns deemed to be ""Egyptian"" by Vitruvius. No Egyptian motifs were employed.^[2] It has twenty niches for sculpture.^[3] There was originally an open courtyard, later occupied by a saloon.^[3]

The residence has its own court of law, since the Lord Mayor is the chief magistrate of the City while in office. There are eleven holding cells (ten for men and one, nicknamed ""the birdcage"", for women). A famous prisoner here was the early 20th century suffragette women's rights campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=london

number of items=single

period=pre - 1914

postage condition=unposted