Detail of decorative plaster ceiling in the first-floor west room at old Canonbury House, 6-7 Canonbury Place, Islington. It features a roundel with the portrait of Aegeria (the mythical consort of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome), and classical historical figures including Alexander the Great, as well as floral scrolls and sprays. Its central panel, not visible in this image, bears the date 1599. This building, together with numbers 8-9, is named as 'Canonbury House' on old maps. In fact, they all form a row of terraced houses which incorporates parts of the central range of Sir John Spencer's late sixteenth-century manor house. Numbers 6-9 are Grade II* listed, listing number 1195507. Since 2014, they have been the premises of North Bridge House Senior School and Sixth Form. They should not be confused with the neighbouring eighteenth-century Canonbury House, formerly known as St Stephen's Vicarage.
