Title

Table and Tapestry from the Medieval Merchant's House, French Street, Southampton, Hampshire, 1988

Caption

A detail of the table and tapestry in the hall of the Medieval Merchant's House, 58 French Street, Southampton, Hampshire, 1988. These furnishings are a reconstruction, indicating how the hall might have looked. The house is one of the earliest surviving merchant's houses in England. It was constructed around 1290 as both a place of business and residence for John Fortin, a wealthy merchant who traded with merchants from Bordeaux, France.

Date

1988

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19A78_065

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (2,0Mb) / 12,3in x 15,8in / 3680 x 4742 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings England interior indoors old house aged architecture street trade color colour lane hampshire avenue medieval beam location century inside tapestry Southampton concept residence merchant Eighties reconstruction 1980s mediaeval Middle Ages 20th century English Heritage decade French Street merchant's house TGN timber framed trestle table photograph John Fortin Paul Highnam John Fortin Highnam Paul Highnam P John Fortin photograph