2 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 18

THE GEFFRYE MUSEUM.

An exquisite 18th century almshouse, hardly known to Londoners, stands near the Shoreditch end of the Kingsland Road (bus No. 6). It is now a museum of furniture and interior decoration. Built in 1715, it stands on three sides of a shady garden. An admirable leaden effigy of the founder, Sir Robert Geffr5re, Lord Mayor, swaggers in a niche over the door of the chapel. In one of the cottages lived the son of Bernard Lens (drawing master to the Duke of Cumberland), who engraved the Views of Shoreditch in 1736. One of the panelled rooms in the Museum was designed and partly executed by Alfred Stevens.