Begun in 1912 and completed in 1922, the Grade II* building is now a Four Seasons hotel which opened as such on 26th January 2017. In the first decade of the 20th century small buildings, courts and yards bordering Trinity Square were cleared to make way for the construction of the Port of London Authority headquarters at 10 Trinity Square. In the 1880s, a section of the London Underground Circle Line was constructed beneath Trinity Square Gardens.
1536 – George Boleyn, brother of Anne Boleyn.1535 – Sir Thomas More, ex-Lord Chancellor.1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.1499 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick.1497 – James Tuchet, a commander of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.1470 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester.1462 – Aubrey de Vere, eldest son and heir of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford.1462 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford.1397 – Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel.1388 – John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (fourth creation).1381 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (beheaded by an angry mob).Some 120 executions are chronicled and they include:. Lord Lovat’s execution for high treason in 1747 was the last judicial beheading in England while the final executions on Tower Hill were hangings in 1780.
The backgrounds to these ranged from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the Wars of the Roses Lollardism claims to the throne by Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel Reformation Pilgrimage of Grace Monmouth Rebellion Jacobite Rising and the Gordon Riots of 1780. Public executions of high-profile traitors and criminals, often attainted peers, as well as innocent Catholics in the 16th century, were carried out on Tower Hill. The Tower Hill Memorial, marking the site of the Scaffold
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