The Courtauld Gallery is open to the public and housed in the Strand Block of Somerset House, which was the first home for the Royal Academy upon its foundation in 1768.

When a scheme to unite a number of government offices on the site of Somerset House in the Strand was projected, his position did not give him automatic authoriy over the construction ; however when William Robinson, secretary to the board, who had been put in charge of the new building, died in 1775, Chambers became its architect.

In 1752 he moved to Somerset Court, off the Strand.

In 1696 a London bailiff, who attempted to serve process on a debtor who had taken refuge within the precincts of the Savoy, was tarred and feathered and taken in a wheelbarrow to the Strand, where he was tied to a maypole that stood by what is now Somerset House, as an improvised pillory.

Those on the south side of the street were, from east to west: A 19th century print showing St Mary-Le-Strand and the Strand front of Somerset House.

* King's College London, whose main campus ( called the Strand Campus ) is located off this street, next to Somerset House

The north end passes above the Victoria Embankment where the road joins the Strand and Aldwych alongside Somerset House.

The church stands on what is now a traffic island to the north of Somerset House, King's College London's Strand campus building and The Temple, and south of Bush House.

A 19th century print showing St. Mary le Strand and the Strand front of Somerset House.

The Strand, London | Strand façade of Somerset House

Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, England, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.

The Strand façade of Chambers ’ s Somerset House and the church of St Mary-le-Strand, shown in a view of 1836

The Strand, London | Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers ( architect ) | William Chambers from 1775 – 1780, has housed the Courtauld Institute since 1989.

The east wing of Somerset House, and the adjacent King's ( formerly Smirke ) Building of King's College London, on the Strand ( 1829 – 31 ).

The Strand, London | Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers ( architect ) | William Chambers from 1775 – 80, has housed the Courtauld Institute of Art since 1989.

Strand forms part of the Helderberg Basin, together with Somerset West and Gordon's Bay.

Also in 2003 the Courtauld Institute of Art, housed nearby in the Strand block of Somerset House, assumed responsibility for the Hermitage Rooms.

In the 1960s, the AECI factory between Somerset West and Strand was the second largest dynamite factory in the world.

In recent years many guest houses and B & Bs have opened up in Somerset West, since it is conveniently located for Cape Town ( away on the N2 motorway ), the beaches at the Strand and Gordon's Bay, as well as the Western Cape's numerous wine farms.

On 23 July 1567, while practising fencing in the backyard of Cecil House in the Strand, the seventeen-year-old Oxford killed Thomas Brincknell, an under-cook in the Cecil household.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, County Wexford, Ireland in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall and Clifden in County Galway.

* The York House, Strand Watergate in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London

* Buckingham Watergate is an alternative name for the York House, Strand Watergate

" In early 1601, he began to fortify Essex House, his town mansion on the Strand, and gathered his followers.

Through Harvey, Edmund Spenser found employment at Leicester House on the Strand, the Earl's palatial town house, where he wrote his first works of poetry.

Frontage onto Strand / Charing Cross of Northumberland House in 1752 by Canaletto.

Though this hotel is now also gone, the memory is preserved in commercial offices facing the Strand named Golden Cross House.

Located in the Strand District, the Grand 1894 Opera House is a restored historic Romanesque Revival style Opera House that is currently operated as a not-for-profit performing arts theater.

Arms and Armour Press, Villiers House, 41-47 Strand, London, 1990.

The House, situated near the Strand in central London, had been purpose-designed by the Adam Brothers ( James Adam and Robert Adam ) as part of their innovative Adelphi scheme completed in 1774.

The Cotton library was moved in 1712 from Cotton House in Westminster to Essex House in the Strand and then moved again in 1730 to Ashburnham House in Westminster.

* Read House and Gardens at 42 the Strand, former home of George Read II.

* Thomas McKean House, 22 The Strand

* Gunning-Bedford House, 6 The Strand, (~ 1730 )

In the 1620s, Villiers acquired York House on the Strand, the street linking the City of London to that of Westminster.

Russell had Bedford House and garden built 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.

The wedding took place between eleven o ' clock at night and two o ' clock in the morning at Worcester House, her father's house in the Strand, and was solemnised by James's chaplain, Dr. Joseph Crowther.

On 11 May 1922, the Marconi Company was issued another licence for experimental broadcasts from a station identified as 2LO which was located at Marconi House in the Strand, London.

:* Geoffrey C. Isaacs, Marconi House, Strand, WC2.

The church of St John the Divine, Kennington, which was to be described by the poet John Betjeman as " the most magnificent church in South London ", was designed by George Edmund Street ( architect of the Royal Courts of Justice on Strand, London ), and was built between 1871 and 1874.

* Neptune Theatre, Halifax, built in 1915 it was originally known as the Strand Theatre and is reputed to be the first vaudeville house designed and built specifically as a theatre.

The first bridge on the site was designed in 1809-10 by John Rennie for the Strand Bridge Company and opened in 1817 as a toll bridge.

Temple Bar refers to two places in London, the original barrier that in recent centuries has just been a gateway that marked the point where Fleet Street, City of London becomes the Strand, Westminster, and the actual gateway designed by Christopher Wren relocated to Paternoster Square, St Paul's Cathedral.

The hall was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt, who also designed the Savoy Hotel on The Strand.

The old school within the city walls eventually outlived its usefulness, and in 1814 came the move to the newly-erected and well-proportioned Georgian building set on a height above the Strand outside the city walls, designed by the architect, John Bowden ( who had also designed the Courthouse in Derry, St George's Church, High Street, Belfast, and St Stephen's Church Pepper Canister Church ' on Mount Street on Dublin's Southside ).

Gibbs designed one church for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches this was St Mary le Strand, construction began in 1714 and it was complete by 1717.