Drury Lane

Drury Lane buildings from the left to the right - Leigh-Pemberton House (Visitor Information Centre), St Mary Magdalene Church and Lincoln Cathedral with the Exchequer Gate. The 14th century gate is located at the Cathedral end of Castle Hill,where tenants who rented property from the church came to pay their rents. The origin of the Exchequer Gate is uncertain, but tradition holds that it was constructed during the reign of Edward I. Leigh-Pemberton House is a large timber framed merchant’s house of 1543, possibly the Ironmongers Arms in 1666 and extensively restored in the 20th century. It was a bank from c.1899-1979. Sir Robert Leigh-Pemberton was chairman of the NatWest Bank and Governor of the Bank of England 1983-93.

Lincoln Lincolnshire

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