Rainbow Coffee House, Lancaster Court, between Stand and St Martin's Lane.

 

The Rainbow Coffee House, Lancaster Court, between Stand and St Martin's Lane.

Active 1702 - 55.

Not to be confused with several other similarly named Coffee Houses

(to be expanded on in due course).

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/94590

The Rainbow was described as an "informal talking shop" for French speaking intellectuals in Chapter 9, The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 edited by Anne Dunan-Page.

Voltaire visited in 1727.

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For The Rainbow, Dr John Misaubin and early Freemasonry see

https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/article/202108the-much-maligned-dr-john-misaubin/

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The location of Lancaster Court between St Martin's Church Yard and the Strand.

From Horwoods Revised Map of 1819.

showing the projected "improvements"

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David Hume wrote in 1737 "I lodge at present in the Rainbow Coffee House in Lancaster Court"

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https://www.londonlives.org/browse.jsp?div=BBBRMG20206MG202060168

also see - https://www.academia.edu/32269006/On_Cribby_Islands_proof