[82] How much of Jones's original building is left is unclear, as the church was damaged by fire in 1795 during restoration work by Thomas Hardwick; the columns are thought to be original but the rest is mostly Georgian or Victorian reconstruction.[83]. Community See All. Once it was a huge fruit, vegetable and flower market with many taverns, theatres, coffee-houses, prostitutes and brothels. [37] It was grouped into the Strand District in 1855. Redevelopment was considered, but protests from the Covent Garden Community Association in 1973 prompted the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, to give dozens of buildings around the square listed-building status, preventing redevelopment. [69] Another market, the Jubilee Market, is held in the Jubilee Hall on the south side of the square. [131], The journey from Covent Garden to Leicester Square is London's shortest tube journey, at less than 300 yards. [60] Seventeen of the houses had arcaded portico walks organised in groups of four and six either side of James Street on the north side, and three and four either side of Russell Street. [130] The station opened in 1907, and is one of the few in Central London for which platform access is only by lift or stairs. It is north of The Strand and east of Trafalgar Square. An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler's neo-classical building was erected in 1830 to cover and help organise the market. Charing Cross is the nearest National Rail ('mainline') station to Covent Garden. They were from 1855 to 1900 part of the St Giles District and from 1900 part of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn. Join Facebook to connect with Covent Garden English and others you may know. [46] The buildings are let to the Covent Garden Area Trust, who pay an annual peppercorn rent of one red apple and a posy of flowers for each head lease, and the Trust protects the property from being redeveloped. [25], Historically, the Bedford Estate defined the boundary of Covent Garden, with Drury Lane to the east, the Strand to the south, St Martin's Lane to the west, and Long Acre to the north. It has several rehearsal rooms with full-size stages, a large costume department and restaurants. About See All. [132][133], The Quietway 1 cycle route passes through Covent Garden. [99] The pub acquired a reputation for staging bare-knuckle prize fights during the early 19th century when it earned the nickname "Bucket of Blood". It was designed as a dedicated flower market by William Rogers of William Cubitt and Company in 1871,[62] and was first occupied by the museum in 1980. A district in Central London. 2 Back to menu Our international websites. After it was destroyed by fire in 1672, English dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew constructed a larger theatre on the same spot, which opened in 1674. This new company sold some properties at Covent Garden, while becoming active in property investment in other parts of London. [12], After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540 under King Henry VIII, monastic lands in England reverted to the crown, including lands belonging to Westminster Abbey such as the Convent Garden and seven acres to the north called Long Acre. It's just as described by everyone. During the first hundred years or so of its history, the theatre was primarily a playhouse, with the Letters Patent granted by Charles II giving Covent Garden and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, exclusive rights to present spoken drama in London. [85] Covent Garden has 13 theatres,[86] and over 60 pubs and bars, with most south of Long Acre, around the main shopping area of the old market. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". The square languished until its central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980. A farthing. [28][29] Long Acre is the main thoroughfare, running north-east from St Martin's Lane to Drury Lane. The Harp's awards include London Pub of the Year in 2008 by the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood, and National Pub of the Year by CAMRA in 2010. The Bow Street Magistrate's Court was one of the most famous criminal courts in London until it was closed in 2006. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, with cafes, pubs, small shops and a craft market called the Apple Market. [84] Parts of the building are open to the public daily, and its preserved classic Art Deco style, together with its regular use as a film and television location, have made it a tourist destination. [80], St Paul's, commonly known as the Actors' Church,[81] was built in 1633, at a cost of £4,000, though was not consecrated until 1638. Since November 2008 the theatre has been owned by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and generally stages popular musical theatre. James Hackman. [50] It has been the home of The Royal Opera since 1945, and the Royal Ballet since 1946. Covent Garden, square in the City of Westminster, London. 337 people follow this. [79] The Covent Garden building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and rail vehicles from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as artefacts and exhibits related to the operation and marketing of passenger services and the impact that the developing transport network has had on the city and its population. [6], More than 30 London Buses routes run along Covent Garden's perimeters, although no routes run directly through Covent Garden following the permanent withdrawal of the RV1 route in 2019. It is going to be a boutique hotel. The inclusion of the adjacent old Floral Hall, previously a part of the old Covent Garden Market, created a large new public gathering place. Bow Street is also nearby; it is a boundary road to Covent Garden. [56] From about 1635 onwards there were many private residents of note, including the nobility, living in the Great Piazza. This is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of the English capital and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends. [61], The first record of a "new market in Covent Garden" is in 1654 when market traders set up stalls against the garden wall of Bedford House. Get Directions +52 228 824 7537. In 1913 Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford agreed to sell the Covent Garden Estate for £2 million to the MP and land speculator Harry Mallaby-Deeley, who sold his option in 1918 to the Beecham family for £250,000. The route is signposted and runs on quieter roads or contraflow cycle lanes. The northern reaches of Covent Garden were within the ancient parish of St Giles in the Fields and outside the Liberty of Westminster. In 1962 the bulk of the remaining properties in the Covent Garden area, including the market, were sold to the newly established government-owned Covent Garden Authority for £3,925,000.[23]. [30] Shelton Street, running parallel to the north of Long Acre, marks the London borough boundary between Camden and Westminster. [3] By 1200 part of it had been walled off by the Abbot of Westminster Abbey for use as arable land and orchards, later referred to as "the garden of the Abbey and Convent", and later "the Convent Garden". A later document, dated between 1250 and 1283, refers to "the garden of the Abbot and Convent of Westminster". Since 1965 Covent Garden falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden, and is in the Parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. However that survived only 15 years, burning down in 1809. [59], The church of St Paul's was the first building, and was begun in July 1631 on the western side of the square. London Transport Museum and the side entrance to the Royal Opera House box office and other facilities are also located on the square. This is how it was recorded from then on. During the late 1970s and 1980s the Rock Garden music venue was popular with up and coming punk rock and new wave artists. Covent Garden Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". The courtyard space is dedicated to classical music only. [42] The central hall has shops, cafes and bars alongside the Apple Market stalls selling antiques, jewellery, clothing and gifts; there are additional casual stalls in the Jubilee Hall Market on the south side of the square. [118][119] Other restaurants include Belgo Centraal on Earlham Street, part of the Belgo chain of Belgian themed restaurants; one of Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurants, which opened in 2007;[120] Gaby's Deli, a Jewish cafe and restaurant serving falafels and salt beef sandwiches since 1965,[121] and Mon Plaisir, founded in 1943, one of the oldest French restaurants in London. The 4th Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fine houses to attract wealthy tenants. Chinese German English ... Covent Garden is a major draw for visitors and Londoners who enjoy its many attractions, including shopping, theatre, restaurants, bars, history and culture. [95] It continues to win regular CAMRA pub awards under its new owners. [73][74][75] Killigrew's theatre lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. All Free. The Covent Garden area has long been associated with entertainment and shopping. Covent Garden incorporates some of London's Theatreland and also forms a smaller extension to London's gay village that is centred on the neighbouring district of Soho. The area is hugely popular with visitors to London, and has a number of remarkable buildings nearby. Street entertainment at Covent Garden was noted in Samuel Pepys's diary in May 1662, when he recorded the first mention of a Punch and Judy show in Britain. Many of his operas and oratorioswere specifically written fo… The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980 and is now a tourist location containing cafes, pubs, small shops, and a craft market called the Apple Market, along with another market held in the Jubilee Hall. [11], The first mention of a walled garden comes from a document, circa 1200 AD, detailing land owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster. [125], Covent Garden, and especially the market, have appeared in a number of works. Covent Garden. [76] It has been home to actors as diverse as Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, child actress Clara Fisher, comedian Dan Leno, the comedy troupe Monty Python (who recorded a concert album there), and musical composer and performer Ivor Novello. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is nearby. These revealed that a trading town, called Lundenwic, developed around 600 AD,[10] stretching from Trafalgar Square to Aldwych, with Covent Garden at the centre. [21] Descriptions of the prostitutes and where to find them were provided by Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, the "essential guide and accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure". Adjacent to the former market site stands the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), home of Britain’s oldest national opera and ballet companies. [56] Jones's design was informed by his knowledge of modern town planning in Europe, particularly Piazza d'Arme, in Leghorn, Tuscany, Piazza San Marco in Venice, Piazza Santissima Annunziata in Florence, and the Place des Vosges in Paris. [48] The complete Covent Garden Estate owned by CapCo consists of 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m2), and has a market value of £650 million. [24] The market buildings, along with several other properties in Covent Garden, were bought by a Property company in 2006. [5], The Bedford Estate was expanded by the inheritance of the former manor of Bloomsbury to the immediate north of Covent Garden following the marriage of William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683) (third son of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire) to Rachel Wriothesley, heiress of Bloomsbury, younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (1607-1667). Gradually, both the market and the surrounding area fell into disrepute, as taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and brothels opened up. [5] By the 18th century it had become notorious for its abundance of brothels. [19], The houses initially attracted the wealthy, though they moved out when a market developed on the south side of the square around 1654, and coffee houses, taverns, and prostitutes moved in. These arcades, rather than the square itself, took the name Piazza;[1] the group from James Street to Russell Street became known as the "Great Piazza" and that to the south of Russell Street as the "Little Piazza". In 1867, Johann Strauss II from Austria composed "Erinnerung an Covent Garden" (Memory of Covent Garden, op. [53][54], The central square in Covent Garden is simply called "Covent Garden", often marketed as "Covent Garden Piazza" to distinguish it from the eponymous surrounding area. [38] In 1900 it became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster and was abolished as a civil parish in 1922. Covent Garden English is on Facebook. Rachel's son and heir was Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1680–1711). [114] Among the restaurants are the historic theatrical eating places, the oldest of which is Rules, which was founded in 1798, making it the oldest restaurant in London,[115] followed by J. Sheekey, an oyster bar and fish restaurant founded in 1893 by market-stall holder Josef Sheekey in Lord Salisbury's St Martin's Court,[116][117] and The Ivy, which was founded as an unlicensed Italian cafe by Abel Giandellini in 1917. The area was fields until briefly settled in the 7th century when it became the heart of the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic, then abandoned at the end of the 9th century after which it returned to fields. [34] During a reorganisation in 1542 it was transferred to St Martin in the Fields, and then in 1645 a new parish was created, splitting governance of the estate between the parishes of St Paul Covent Garden and St Martin,[35] both still within the Liberty of Westminster. Designed and laid out in 1630, it was the first modern square in London—originally a flat, open space or piazza with low railings. It was eventually purchased by the landlady Binnie Walsh around 2010 then subsequently sold by her to Fuller's Brewery in 2014. [106][107], Other Grade II listed pubs include three 19th century rebuilds of 17th century/18th century houses, the Nell Gwynne Tavern in Bull Inn Court,[108] the Nag's Head on James Street,[109] and the White Swan on New Row;[110] a Victorian pub built by lessees of the Marquis of Exeter, the Old Bell on the corner of Exeter Street and Wellington Street;[111][112] and a late 18th or early 19th century pub the Angel and Crown on St Martin's Lane. In 1734, the first ballet was presented; a year later Handel's first season of operas began. [7][8] Excavations in 2006 at St Martin-in-the-Fields revealed a late Roman grave, suggesting the site had been sacred since at least 410AD. [113], There is a wide range of restaurants, mainly in Covent Garden's central area around the piazza, and in the St Martin's Lane area bordering the West End; some of these with international reputations. The following year the market moved to a new site in Nine Elms, between Battersea and Vauxhall in south-west London. [6], Other nearby tube stations include Charing Cross, Embankment, and Holborn. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was granted in 1552 by the young King Edward VI to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (c.1485–1555), the trusted adviser to his father King Henry VIII. [134], Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England, National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood, "Excavations at 15–16 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London", "King Alfred's London and London's King Alfred", "Plan of Bedford House, Covent Garden, &c. 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[94][95] It was at one time owned by the Charrington Brewery, when it was known as The Welsh Harp;[96] in 1995 the name was abbreviated to just The Harp,[97] before Charrington sold it to Punch Taverns in 1997. Covent Garden is a huge piazza or open area in London, between the West End and the City of London. [15], Russell built Bedford House and garden on part of the land, with an entrance on the Strand, the large garden stretching back along the south side of the old walled-off convent garden. [18] This had been prompted by King Charles I having taken offence at the poor condition of the road and houses along Long Acre, which were the responsibility of Russell and Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth. Read more. Now it is a huge commercial area and "tourist trap". The Northern line links Covent Garden directly to destinations such as Waterloo, Euston, and Camden Town. It has been purchased and restored by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. ABOUT COVENT GARDEN ENGLISH. … [102], The Salisbury in St Martin's Lane was built as part of a six-storey block around 1899 on the site of an earlier pub that had been known under several names, including the Coach & Horses and Ben Caunt's Head; it is both Grade II listed, and on CAMRA's National Inventory, due to the quality of the etched and polished glass and the carved woodwork, summed up as "good fin de siècle ensemble". For a fee of £2,000, the King then granted Russell a licence to build as many new houses on his land as he "shall thinke fitt and convenient". 1 and Nos. By the end of the 1960s, traffic congestion had reached such a level that the use of the square as a modern wholesale distribution market was becoming untenable, and significant redevelopment was planned. This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 17:07. The Royal Opera House, known as "Covent Garden", was constructed as the "Theatre Royal" in 1732 to a design by Edward Shepherd. Once it was a huge fruit, vegetable and flower market with many taverns, theatres, coffee-houses, prostitutes and brothels. [129], Covent Garden tube station is situated on the corner of Long Acre and James Street. Covent Garden At Home. The space is popular with street performers, who audition with the site's owners for an allocated slot. Apple, Fiona Fleur, Bailey Nelson and more are here for you to click and collect your orders. Covent Garden falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden and the parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. It is north of The Strand and east of Trafalgar Square. [91] Covent Garden is licensed for street entertainment, and performers audition for timetabled slots in a number of venues around the market, including the North Hall, West Piazza, and South Hall Courtyard. Freemasons' Hall is the headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England and the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England, as well as a meeting place for many Masonic Lodges in the London area. [22] In 1830 a market hall was built to provide a more permanent trading centre. It is served by Piccadilly line trains, which link the area directly to important Central London destinations including King's Cross St Pancras, South Kensington, and Heathrow Airport (). There are street performances at Covent Garden Market every day of the year, except Christmas Day. 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[49] During the first hundred years or so of its history, the theatre was primarily a playhouse, with the Letters Patent granted by Charles II giving Covent Garden and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, exclusive rights to present spoken drama in London. #2 Best Value of 51 places to stay in Covent Garden (London). [71] For much of its first two centuries, it was, along with the Royal Opera House, a patent theatre granted rights in London for the production of drama, and had a claim to be one of London's leading theatres. The former market has been redeveloped, keeping its glass roof and cast iron spans. [13] The use of the name "Covent"—an Anglo-French term for a religious community, equivalent to "monastery" or "convent"[14]—appears in a document in 1515, when the Abbey, which had been letting out parcels of land along the north side of the Strand for inns and market gardens, granted a lease of the walled garden, referring to it as "a garden called Covent Garden". [2] The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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