NOTES: Capel House was a purpose built office block by Paul Hoffmann. The Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society occupied the ground and lower floors and commissioned Voysey to design their interiors.The building was gutted in the 1980s and the Voysey interiors were re-instated behind the facade.
NOTES: Capel House was a purpose built office block by Paul Hoffmann. The Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society occupied the ground and lower floors and commissioned Voysey to design their interiors.The building was gutted in the 1980s and the Voysey interiors were re-instated behind the facade.
SOURCE: R. Ackermann. The Microcosm of London (London, 1835), vol. III, pl. 74 NOTES: The Stamp Office, later known as the Inland Revenue, was previously in premises in New Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields. It relocated to new 'superior' offices on the south side of the quadrangle of Somerset House in 1797.