Exeter Hall
From 1831 until 1907, writes Leonard W. Cowie, Exeter Hall played a vital part in the ameliorative work of believers in human betterment.
Number 372 in the Strand, now submerged by the Strand Palace Hotel, was formerly the site of Exeter Hall, an institution whose activities in the nineteenth century aroused strong and conflicting emotions among writers, and provided political cartoonists with constant material.
At the same time, it played an important part in the religious and philanthropic, musical and educational history of those years.
Originally this part of the north side of the Strand was occupied by Burleigh House (afterwards Exeter House), which was begun in Edward VI’s reign by Sir Thomas Palmer on the site of the rectory of St. Clement Danes, a house of the Master of the Savoy and tenements which formerly belonged to the ‘Covent Garden’ of Westminster Abbey.
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