The Savoy

Savoy Palace
Count Peter of Savoy was the maternal uncle of Eleanor of Provence, queen-consort of Henry III of England, and came with her to London. King Henry III made Peter Earl of Richmond and, in 1246, gave him the land between the Strand and the Thames where Peter built the Savoy Palace in 1263.

The Savoy Palace was considered the grandest nobleman's townhouse of medieval London, being the residence of John of Gaunt until it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. It fronted on the north the Strand, on the site of the present Savoy Theatre and the Savoy Hotel.

Savoy Hospital
Henry VII founded the Savoy Hospital for poor, needy people, leaving instructions for it in his will. It was opened in 1512. The grand structure was the most impressive hospital of its time in the country and the first to benefit from permanent medical staff. It closed in 1702

Savoy Chapel
The Savoy Chapel or the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy is a chapel off the Strand, London, dedicated to St John the Baptist. It was originally built in the Middle Ages off the main church of the Savoy Palace.

The original chapel was within Peter of Savoy's palace and was destroyed with it in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. The present chapel building was constructed in the 1490s (and finished in 1512) by Henry VII as a side chapel off his hospital's 200-foot (61 m) long nave.

The Chapel is a private chapel of Her Majesty The Queen in right of her Duchy of Lancaster and not subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop.

Savoy Theatre
The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in London. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas as a result.

The theatre was the first theatre, and the first public building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity.

Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Hotel is a luxury hotel located on the Strand in central London. It opened on 6 August 1889.

It was the first hotel lit by electric lights and the first with electric lifts.

In 1890, the hotel's hired its first famous manager, César Ritz, who later became the founder of the Ritz Hotel.