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2020 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

2. The Market for Building

verfasst von : Judy Z. Stephenson

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Abstract

From all accounts, the period from after the Restoration to the 1780s was one of significant high investment, both public and private, in the built environment in London. London’s building industry was large and well developed by the 1660s. This chapter explores the market for construction and the sources of wage data.

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Vorheriges Kapitel A Short History of Builders’ Wages in Economic History
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1
Wrigley, ‘A Simple Model of London’s Importance’, p. 44.
 
2
Wrigley, ‘Urban Growth and Agricultural Change’, p. 686.
 
3
Broadberry et al., British Economic Growth, pp. 271–272.
 
4
Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialisation, p. 7.
 
5
See the preface and introduction to Reddaway, The Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire.
 
6
An authoritative review of housing stock in London throughout the eighteenth century is Peter Guillery’s The Small House in Eighteenth Century London. For the classic account of seventeenth-century London speculative development, see McKellar, The Birth of Modern London; for smaller scale domestic development see Baer, ‘Housing for the Lesser Sort in Stuart London’, pp. 61–88; ‘Using Housing Quality to Track Change in the Standard of Living and Poverty for Seventeenth-Century London’, pp. 1–18; Power, ‘Shadwell: The Development of a London Suburban Community’, pp. 29–46.
 
7
For crafts see Beard, Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England.
 
8
Stone, ‘The Residential Development of the West End of London in the Seventeenth Century’, pp. 167–212; Allen, The British Industrial Revolution, pp. 92–93.
 
9
Summerson, Georgian London, p. 11.
 
10
Knights Cyclopaedia of London, 1851, pp. 18, 373, 789; Coates, The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, pp. 209–211; Baer, ‘The House-Building Sector of London’s Economy, 1550–1650’, pp. 409–430.
 
11
Guillery, The Small House, pp. 18–34; McKellar, The Birth of Modern London, pp. 18–20.
 
13
Baer, ‘The House-Building Sector of London’s Economy, 1550–1650’, pp. 412–414.
 
14
Harding, ‘The Population of London 1550–1700, A Review of the Published Evidence’, pp. 111–128; Baer, ‘Using Housing Quality to Track Change in the Standard of Living’, pp. 1–18, esp. p. 7.
 
15
Power, ‘Shadwell: The Development of a London Suburban Community’, pp. 29–46.
 
16
Baer, ‘Housing for the Lesser Sort in Stuart London’, pp. 61–88. Guillery estimates that no more of 15% of the stock was subdivided, The Small House, pp. 34–35.
 
17
Merritt, ‘Puritans, Laudians, and the Phenomenon of Church Building in Jacobean London’, pp. 935–960.
 
18
As described by Knoop and Jones, The London Mason in the Seventeenth Century, p. 5. Their figures are taken from Strype, 1720, in n. 12 above, Chap. 28.
 
19
Reddaway, The Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, pp. 72–76.
 
20
Ibid., p. 112.
 
21
19 Cha. II. c.8.; 18 & 19 Cha. II c.7. A 1670 act provided for the rebuilding of St Paul’s, 22 Cha. II c.11.
 
22
Summerson, Georgian London, pp. 65–66.
 
23
Reddaway, The Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, pp. 122–123.
 
24
Campbell, ‘The Finances of the Carpenter in England’, pp. 314–316; McKellar, Birth of Modern London, pp. 79–80.
 
25
Brett James, The Growth of Stuart London, p. 509.
 
26
Field, London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666, Chap. 3.
 
27
Colvin et al., The History of the King’s Works, Vol. 5, p. 32.
 
28
Ibid., pp. 40–42.
 
29
‘Custom House Quay and the Old Custom House’, in Survey of London: Vol. 15, pp. 35–40.
 
30
Skempton, A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, pp. 228–229.
 
31
Knoop and Jones, The London Mason, p. 6.
 
32
The Wren Society, Vol. X, pp. 45–53.
 
33
Jeffrey, The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren, p. 356.
 
34
Yeomans, ‘Managing Eighteenth-Century Building’, p. 5; Summerson, Georgian London, p. 69.
 
35
Campbell, Building St Paul’s. The amount raised or borrowed by the Cathedral was £1,157,782 10s. 2½d. and only £721,552, 7s. 7¼d. was spent on direct building costs to 1711, the difference was in interest and other associated cost of building, pp. 8, 68.
 
36
McKellar, The Birth of Modern London, pp. 64–65, and p. 73 for varying brick values that obscure accurate estimation of building costs; Guillery, The Small House, p. 50.
 
37
Paine, The Builder’s Companion, p. 10. Between 1677 and 1757 the CPI varied between 1.2 and 1.8 in London, although the 10-year average was declining for most of those decades, implying building materials appreciated faster than other goods. In other words, Paine was writing for a very distinguished audience, or McKellar’s prices are low estimates.
 
38
McKellar, The Birth of Modern London, Chaps. 2 and 3 for a discussion around costs and contracts generally.
 
39
Ibid., Chaps. 2 and 5, and see London Metropolitan Archives List of City masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters compiled by H.M. Colvin, loose leaf in COL/SJ/09/004, MSS/133/21.
 
40
Ibid., pp. 87–89.
 
41
Ibid., pp. 58–65, 72–73; Baer, ‘The Housebuilding Sector’, pp. 412–416 makes this clear.
 
43
Guillery, The Small House, pp. 282–284; Barras, Building Cycles, pp. 7–8, 180.
 
44
Sheppard, Belcher, and Cottrell, ‘The Middlesex and Yorkshire Deeds Registries and the Study of Building Fluctuations’, pp. 176–217; Guillery, The Small House, p. 25.
 
45
Survey of London: Vol. 14, St Margaret, Westminster, Part III: Whitehall II, pp. 23–36.
 
46
Sir John Soane Museum, SM volume 109/2 and 3.
 
47
Skempton, Biographical Dictionary, p. 824.
 
48
Skempton, Biographical Dictionary, p. 824 gives the first figure. TNA Work 5/46 does not have complete accounts. Also see London Metropolitan Archive, B/CWB/I/1, ‘Westminster bridge Original Manuscripts, Notes on’, p. 4.
 
49
Colvin, History of the King’s Works, Vol. 5, p. 467.
 
50
Knoop and Jones, The London Masons’ Company, pp. 157–166.
 
51
See Carpenters Company Court Minutes, London Lives, 1690–1800, www.​londonlives.​org, GLCCMC251040001, January 1721 to October 1727.
 
52
Field, London, Londoners and the Great Fire, Chap. 3.
 
53
Westminster Abbey Muniments, Christopher Wren Fabric Books, 34513, 34514. This is the Westminster source for Gilboy, Wages in Eighteenth Century England, Appendix.
 
55
Labourers at St Paul’s Cathedral are a notable exception up to and throughout the early part of the eighteenth century. See Chap. 6.
 
56
Campbell, ‘The Finances of the Carpenter in England’.
 
58
Westminster Abbey Muniments 34517, minutes of 11 October 1722 Subcommittee for the Repairing of the Abbey.
 
59
Westminster Abbey Muniments 65615.
 
61
Ibid.
 
62
Gilboy, Wages in Eighteenth Century England; McCulloch, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical, pp. 952–953; Bowley, Wages in the United Kingdom, pp. 81–82.
 
63
Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530–1830, pp. 236–275.
 
64
TNA ADM 67, and ADM 64/2, 80/4, Greenwich Hospital Fabric Committee. Gilboy’s source is given as ‘accounts of’, under ‘Admiralty’ only, in her list of sources.
 
65
LMA CLC/B/227-175.
 
66
ADM 68/670.
 
67
Schwarz, ‘The Standard of Living’, n. 11, 12.
 
68
MJ/SP/1796/A/017.
 
69
Middle Temple Archive, Treasurers books MT.2/TRB/1682.
 
70
Middle Temple Archive, ACCVOUBI MT/ TOT/3/2 discussed in Chap. 5.
 
71
MT.2/TRB/1682, Christopher Wren bill, August 11, 1682.
 
72
Campbell, Building St Paul’s.
 
73
Ibid., Chap. 6; Lang, Rebuilding St Paul’s after the Great Fire of London, pp. 79–81.
 
74
The original accounts moved from the Guildhall to the London Metropolitan archives between 2009 and 2011. Original account books can be consulted at LMA CLC/313/I/B but the Wren Society’s transcription of the account is accurate and aided by knowledgeable narrative. Wren Society Vols. XIII, XV, XVI., index in Vol. XX.
 
75
TNA C 106/146.
 
76
 
77
Ibid., p. 890.
 
78
BL MS 27587.
 
79
TNA Work 6/ 44, 45, 46.
 
80
TNA Work 6/46, 48.
 
81
All at LMA; Receipt books at CLA/007/FN/05, bill books at CLA/007/FN/04, payments at CLA/007/FN/03, sundry papers at CLC/215/MS31022, 3, and COL/CC/BHC/10 03-10.
 
82
Latham, The London Bridge Improvement Act of 1756, p. 168.
 
83
London Metropolitan Archives CLA/007/AD/01/007.
 
84
Mark Latham, ‘The City Has Been Wronged and Abused!’ p. 1044.
 
85
Colvin, ‘Financial Stress’ in The History of the King’s Works, Vol. 5, pp. 42–46.
 
86
By way of example, see Connor, ‘Flitcroft, Henry (1697–1769), architect’. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
 
Metadaten
Titel
The Market for Building
verfasst von
Judy Z. Stephenson
Copyright-Jahr
2020
Buch
Contracts and Pay

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-57507-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-57508-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57508-7_2

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