Savage Gardens connects Crutched Friars in the north to Trinity Square in the south, crossing Pepys Street.
The house of Sir Thomas Savage was located here. Savage Gardens was originally Savage Garden - the garden behind Sir Thomas Savage’s home.
In 1626 he was made ’Commissioner of Ways and Means of Increasing the King’s Revenue’, and succeeded so well in the post, selling off some of the royal estates, that Charles I created him Viscount Savage later the same year.
He died here in 1635, aged about 49, ’of the running gout’.
