St. Mary Spital
Agas MapList documents mentioning St. Mary Spital- Billiter Lane
- Bishopsgate Ward
- Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund the Bishop and Mary Magdalen
- Excerpts from Sir Thomas More
- Gazetteer (H)
- Gazetteer (P)
- Gazetteer (S)
- Historical Personography
- Shoreditch
- Survey of London: Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London: Cripplegate Ward
- Survey of London: Gates
- Survey of London: Honour of Citizens
- Survey of London: Hospitals
- Survey of London: Portsoken Ward
- Survey of London: Suburbs
- Survey of London: Temporal Government of London
- Survey of London: Vintry Ward
- Survey of London: Waters
- The Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
- The Survey of London (1633): Cripplegate Ward
- The Survey of London (1633): Dowgate Ward
- The Survey of London (1633): Portsoken Ward
- The Survey of London (1633): Vintry Ward
- The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity
- Variant spellings
List variant names and spellingsHoſpitall of S. Marie | Hoſpitall of our Lady | Pulpit Crosſſe at the Spittle | Pulpit Croſſe in Spittle church yarde | S. Marie Spittle | S. Marie Spittle churchyarde | S. Mary | S. Mary Spit tle | S. Mary Spittle | S. Mary Spittle Church-yard | S. Mary the Spittle | Saint Ma ry Spittle | Saint Marie Spittle | Saint Mary Spittle | Spital | Spittle | Spittle Church-yard | Spittle church yarde | St. Mary Spital | St. Mary Spittle
St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and
Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street.
The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St.
Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was
demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. By the time the
Agas map was drawn, many of the priory buildings had been removed and the area
appears sparse. Only thechapel of St. Edmund and Mary
Magdalen and the Pulpit Cross remained. According to Stow, the priory
held lands from
Berwards lane [also called Hog Lane] toward the South, and extendeth in breadth to the parish of Saint Leonard of Soresditch towards the North, and in length, from the Kings streete [possibly Bishopsgate Street] on the west to the Bishops of Londons field, called Lollesworth on the East(Stow). In addition, the priory owned and leased the land occupied by the Tower of London Artillery Yard (Harben). The priory continued its mission until the Dissolution of the Monasteries; when it surrendered it had
180. beds well furnished, for receipt of the poore(Stow).
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents:
