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Durham House Street
64, Strand. (WC2) Takes its name from the ancient pile called Durham House, or Palace, within whose walls was celebrated with much splendour the marriage of Lady Jane Grey with Lord Guilford Dudley. Queen Mary granted Durham Place to the see to which it originally belonged; but Elizabeth, on her accession, claimed it as one of the royal palaces, and granted the use of it to Sir Walter Raleigh, who continued to inhabit it till a short time after her death. On Raleigh's imprisonment in the Tower, Durham Place was granted by the King to Toby Matthew, Bishop of Durham, afterwards Archbishop of York. The estate of Durham Place was purchased about the year 1760, of the Earl of Pembroke, by the Adam brothers, the architects, who built the stately terrace overlooking the river, the Adelphi, on part of the site. (Reference: Smith's Streets of London, pp. 140-2)
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