Palmer, Glass Merchant 118 St Martin's Lane, North Corner Hemmings Row.

 Palmer, 118 St Martin's Lane, on the North Corner of Hemmings Row.

First mentioned as a supplier of Coloured Glass to Horace Walpole in 1747.

It appears that there had been a Glazier on this site prior to 1738 when it was occupied by Charles Carne.

see - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol36/pp263-265

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1754 - Cuttings advertising exhibition of etchings by Thomas Worlidge at Mr Carne's, his Majesty's glazier, corner of Hemmings Row and St Martin's Lane, also an exhibition of pictures at the Great Auction Room, 70 St Martin's Lane.

Abraham Langford's Catalogue -

Langford was in the Piazza at Covent Garden.

"A catalogue of a collection of pictures, painted by Mr. Worlidge, Of Covent-Garden, Consisting of Histories, Heads, Landscapes and Dead Game, and also some Drawings; Which, together with A large and fine Picture of Orpheus and Eurydice, by Guido, Brought over from France by the late Mr. Samuel Paris; A View of Versailles, by Patel, And a large Family Picture, by Jordaens of Antwerp, Will be sold by auction, By Mr. Langford, At his House in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, On Friday the 5th of this Instant April 1754. The said Pictures may be view'd from Wednesday the 3d Instant till the Time of Sale, which will begin punctually at Twelve O'Clock. 

Catalogues of which may be had gratis of Mr. Worlidge, at Mr. Carne's, Glazier to his Majesty, in St. Martin's Lane; Mr. Payne, Bookseller in Pater Noster-Row; and Mr. Langford, in the Great Piazza aforesaid. Conditions of Sale as usual"

https://libcat.lafayette.edu/Record/eres_T29937

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In c. 1738 the narrow passage called Long Alley leading south to the Strand where Agar Street now runs, was rebuilt, together with adjacent frontages to Chandos Street. The site (sold by the fourth Earl in 1636–7) then belonged to William Pulteney of St. George's, Hanover Square, esquire, and in October 1737 he had concluded an agreement for the rebuilding with the architect Isaac Ware and a glazier of St. Martin's in the Fields, Charles Carne. 

A year later the leases of individual sites were granted. Ware and Carne were given leases of a small site fronting Chandos Street, and of two sites in Long Alley, and joined with Pulteney in granting leases of the two corner sites in Chandos Street to Thomas Paulin of Covent Garden, mercer. 

Ware and Carne also themselves had a lease of a site at the south-east end of Long Alley, fronting the Strand at No. 429. The eight other small sites, all on the east side of the alley, were granted by Pulteney, Ware and Carne to seven building lessees: Thomas Carter, the statuary; Leonard Phillips, timber merchant (two sites); Robert Pollard, lime merchant; John Thornhill, the serjeant painter; Thomas Wagg, smith; Stephen Whitaker, brickmaker; and William Wilton, plasterer. By 1739 Ware and Carne had mortgaged their lease of No. 429 Strand to the carver, James Richards.

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Horace Walpole bought the four-acre estate of Strawberry Hill between Twickenham and Richmond in 1747. Thereafter he radically enlarged both the existing house and grounds, remodelling the former into a gothic fantasy castle. Part of the interior decoration saw the purchase and installation of hundreds of panels of displaced stained glass, much of it from the Low Countries. 

For the first phase of work (1750–1754) Walpole used Mr (George) Palmer, of St Martin’s Lane, to set the panels in plain deeply coloured glass, which showed off the pale roundels to great effect.

see - https://www.vidimus.org/issues/issue-34/panel-of-the-month/

Phillip Palmer died 1832.

For his will see -

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D299253

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The last of  Palmer's building on the Corner of Hemmings Row and St Martin's Lane, Opposite Chandos Street. 

Charles James Richardson.

1871.

Published here with permission.

Visible on the hoarding is the board telling of the removal of Palmer's business.