An architectural complex located at the intersection of the elegant West-end district and the more plebeian south-west. It contains an arcade which till recently was a fruit and vegetable market, an adjacent church and an Opera Theatre. The arcade was the work of King Charles I's architect Inigo Jones, who built it in the second half of the XVIII c. under the auspices of the duke of Bedford owner of the property. This nobleman gradually granted sections of his seat to the itinerant peddlers who congregated at the spot until it achieved the extension the market
