[From the numerous authorities, the following may be selected:--_Gent. Mag._ 1742, 418, ff.; _Ranelagh House: a Satire in prose_, London, 1747 (W. Coll.); Dodsley’s _London_, 1761; Sir John Fielding’s _Brief Description of London_, 1776; Burney’s _Hist. of Music_, iv. 668, ff.; Kearsley’s _Strangers’ Guide_ (1793?); Lysons’s _Environs_, Supplement, p. 120; Faulkner’s _Chelsea_, ii. 299, ff.; Blanchard in _The Era Almanack_, 1870; Grove’s _Dict. of Music_, art. “Ranelagh House,” by W. H. Husk; L’Estrange’s _Village of Palaces_, ii. 296; Walford, v. 76, ff.; Austin Dobson’s _Eighteenth Century Vignettes_, 2nd ser. p. 263, ff.; collections relating to Ranelagh in British Museum and Guildhall libraries, and a large series of cuttings from newspapers, magazines, &c., W. Coll.] VIEWS. A good representative series of the principal early views of Ranelagh is in the Crace Collection (_Catal._ p. 164; pp. 312–314). The site is well marked in Horwood’s Plan A, 1794. STROMBOLO HOUSE AND GARDENS, CHELSEA Strombolo House[241] was a minor place of entertainment, dating from 1762, or earlier, with tea-gardens and “a fine fountain”[242] attached to it. The gardens[243] are said to have been most frequented about 1788. They were open chiefly in the afternoons of week-days and Sundays for tea-drinking during the summer season. The house, opposite the famous Royal Bun House, Chelsea, in Jew’s Row (now Pimlico Road), was still standing in 1829, when Faulkner’s _Chelsea_ (second edition) was published, but it appears to have been disused as a place of amusement long before that date. The ground was afterwards occupied by the Orange Tavern and tea-gardens to which was attached the Orange Theatre, a small private playhouse, where local geniuses performed (1831–32). St. Barnabas Church, Pimlico, built 1848–1850, standing off the south side of Pimlico Road (entrance in Church Street) is now nearly on the site. [O’Keefe’s _Recollections_, i. p. 88; Faulkner’s _Chelsea_, ii. p. 357; Davis’s _Knightsbridge_ (1859), p. 263; Wheatley’s _London P. and P._ s.v. “Strombello”; Timbs’s _Club Life_ (1866), ii. p. 260.] STAR AND GARTER TAVERN AND GARDENS, CHELSEA