''Hollywell House, St Albans, from St Stephens Road, copy of an old drawing by Thomas Baskerville, circa1795.''

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

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Copy by H R Wilton Hall of a drawing of Holywell House from St Stephens Hill in the 1790s by Thomas Baskerfield. Watercolour painting showing old Holywell House which once stood at the bottom of Holywell Hill, St Albans, as it appeared c. 1795, viewed from St Stephen's Road (St Stephen's Hill?). After an "old" drawing by Thomas Baskerville. Holywell House was one of the residences of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650- 1722) and his wife Sarah, neé Jennings (1660- 1744). It was demolished in 1837. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, also funded the construction of the Marlborough Almshouses on Hatfield Road in 1736, after her husband's death.

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Holywell House, Holywell Hill (view from St Stephen's Road), St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 66 (green solander).

28/07/2006