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TEDDINGTON BUILDING ACCOUNTS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0154

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TEDDINGTON BUILDING ACCOUNTS

Date(s): 1691-1694

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Foster | Simon | fl 1691-1694 | bricklayer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Charles Duncombe (born 1648) was a successful banker and royal financier, as well as a Member of Parliament and the Lord Mayor of London. He was not married, but from around 1689 he set about establishing landed estates for his nephews as if they were his own sons; the land he purchased to this end included the property at Teddington. The house had ceilings painted by Verrio and carvings by Grinling Gibbons. Duncombe died at the Teddington house in 1711. The house was later known as Teddington Place, and stood just south of the present Saint Alban's church. It appears to have been pulled down in 1940.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Receipts for building work completed by Simon Foster, bricklayer, at Hamylands [or Hamy Lands], the property of Charles Duncombe in Teddington, 1691-1694.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

2 items

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1940 (ACC/0154).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Duncombe family papers are held at the North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton.

Publication note:

G. E. Aylmer, 'Duncombe, Sir Charles (bap. 1648, d. 1711)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bricklayers | Construction industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Receipt | Financial records | Documents | Information sources

Personal names
Duncombe | Sir | Charles | 1648-1711 | Knight | financier and politician
Foster | Simon | fl 1691-1694 | bricklayer

Corporate names

Places
Teddington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Richmond upon Thames
Richmond-upon-Thames