Staining Lane
Staining Lane ran north-south, starting at Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the south and turning into Oat Lane in the north. It is drawn correctly on the Agas map and is labelled as
Stayning la.It served as a boundary between Cripplegate Ward and Aldersgate Ward.
According to Stow, Staining Lane is named after the
Painter stainers dwelling there(Stow 1:304). Maitland refutes this claim, arguing that
Staining Lane Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] was so called, not(Maitland 181). Stow further complicates the etymological lineage: he states that St. Mary Staining is namedbecause stainers lived in it,but because it once contained the haws of the men of Staines
because it standeth at the North ende of Stayning lane(Stow 1:305). However, Harben, Cobb, and Maitland agree that Staining Lane was named after the church and not the other way around (Harben; Cobb 32; Maitland 181). Besides the church, another important site was Haberdashers’ Hall, located at the corner of Staining Lane and Maiden Lane (Wood Street).
Staining Lane survives today, between Gresham Street in the south and Oat Lane in the north.
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Cobb, Gerald. The Old Churches of London. 2nd ed. London: B. T. Batsford, 1942. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Maitland, Frederic William. Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the History of England. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1907. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. See also the digital transcription of this edition at British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents:
