About the time Edward Lloyd moved his coffee house from Tower Street to Lombard Street, a quarter of a mile away, 9 St. Thomas Street, (which was the entrance through what is now Foster Hall to St. Thomas's Hospital) was being converted into the residence of the Hospital's Treasurer.

This handsome and historic house is the only remaining part of the hospital which had occupied the area (which is now London Bridge Station) for nearly 700 years. Situated opposite and once owned by the hospital named after Sir Thomas Guy, the Grade II building lies next door to the original pre Lister operating theatre and museum.

An even longer association has been with the Church, from Augustinian Canons in the 12th century via the ownership of Thomas Cranmer and the Bishoprics of Canterbury, Winchester and Southwark up to the latter part of 1983. The Street, the Hospital and the adjacent now deconsecrated church were named firstly after St. Thomas the Apostle and then the martyred St. Thomas a Becket. When first built St. Thomas's Hospice was part of the Church buildings that are now Southwark Cathedral.