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† pot-gallery Obs.
A ‘gallery’ of some kind on the banks of the Thames (and perhaps other navigable rivers), which often projected over the water, and was found to be an encroachment.
(Its actual nature and purpose have not been ascertained; the suggestion that it was the outside gallery or balcony of a pot-house overhanging the river (see N. & Q. 31 Aug. 1907, p. 172) appears to be set aside by the recorded dimensions of some ‘pot-galleries’: see the quots.)
1630Sir R. Ducie's Orders §20 in R. Griffiths Conservacy of Thames (1746) 70 Item, That no Person do make or continue any Wharf, Building, Potgallery, or other Purpresture, or Incroachment into, upon, or over any Part of the Soil of the said River. 1684Survey of Buildings & Encroachments on Thames (Bodl. Lib., Gough Maps 46 lf. 42), On the South Side..1. At Allen's Dye-house a Pott Gallery, 21 ft. E. to W., 12 ft. out into the River, Old. Ibid. (lf. 43), On the North Side..3. St Katherines, from Iron Gate towards St Katherines Dock are Pot Galleries, 620 ft. E. to W., 8 and 10 ft. out into the river, Old. |