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A1 - Stow, John
A1 - fitz-Stephen, William
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - Survey of London (1598): Aldgate Ward
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
ET - 6.6
PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/30
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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Aldgate Ward is located within the London Wall and east of Lime Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Aldgate Street, are named after Aldgate, the eastern gate into the walled city (Stow 1633, sig. N6v).
Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled
city. The name Aldgate
is thought to come from one of four sources:
Eastern gate
(Ekwall 36), ale
, public gate
or open to all
, or old gate
(Bebbington
20–21).
Aldgate Street ran slightly south-west from Aldgate until it reached a pump, formerly a sweet well. At that point, the street forked into two streets. The northern branch, called Aldgate Street, ran west until it ran into Cornhill at Lime Street. At an earlier point in history, Cornhill seems to have extended east past Lime Street because the church of St. Andrew Undershaft was called St. Andrew upon Cornhill (Harben 10).
Lime Street is a street that ran north-south from Leadenhall Street in the north to Fenchurch Street in the south. It was west of St. Andrew Undershaft and east of Leadenhall. It appears that the street was so named because people made or sold Lime there (Stow). This claim has some historical merit; in the 1150s one Ailnoth the limeburner lived in the area (Harben; BHO).
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
The Bricklayers’ Hall was east of Billiter Lane and stood on the south side of the street running west from the
water pump near Aldgate. This street was named Leadenhall Street in the seventeenth century but was considered
part of Aldgate Street when
Northumberland House was a stately home in Crutched Friars Lane, south of Aldgate. It was built by and named after
Sugarloaf Alley ran north-south from Leadenhall Street to Fenchurch
Street, on the west side of Bricklayers’ Hall. Sprinckle allie
but had been renamed Sugarloaf Alley after a
shop sign.
Billiter Lane ran north-west from
Fenchurch to Leadenhall, entirely in Aldgate Ward. Nearby landmarks included Blanch Appleton facing the opening of
Billiter Lane on the south side
of Fenchurch and Ironmongers’ Hall to the west of Billiter Lane on the north side of Fenchurch. Nearby churches were St. Catherine Cree on Leadenhall and All Hallows Staining adjacent to the Clothworkers’ Hall) and St. Katharine Coleman on Fenchurch. On the Agas map, Billiter Lane is labelled Bylleter la.
London Stone was, literally, a stone
that stood on the south side of what is now Cannon Street (formerly Candlewick Street). Probably Roman in origin, it is
one of London’s oldest relics. On the Agas map, it is visible as a small
rectangle between Saint Swithin’s
Lane and Walbrook Street, just
below the nd
consonant cluster in the label Londonſton
.
St. Mary Axe ran north-south from the church of St. Augustine Papey to Leadenhall
Street.
St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of
St Augustine Papey was a church on the south side
of the city wall and opposite the north end of
St. Mary Axe Street. The church dated from the
twelfth century and in
Bevis Marks was a street south of the City Wall that ran east-west from Shoemaker Row to the north end of St. Mary Axe Street. It was in Aldgate Ward. Bevis Marks was continued by Duke’s Place.
Tower Hill was a large area of open ground north and
west of the Tower of London. It is most famous as a place of execution;
there was a permanent scaffold and gallows on the hill for the execution of
such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of
London
(Stow).
Hart Street ran east-west from Crutched Fryers and the north end of Seething Lane to Mark
Lane. In
Seething Lane ran north-south from the junction of
Hart Street and Crutch
Fryers through to Tower Street. The
lane, in Tower Street Ward, was marked by a church
at each end; on the northwest corner stood St. Olave,
Hart Street and on the southeast corner was All
Hallows Barking. diuers
fayre and large houses
(Stow).
The church of St. Olave, Hart Street is found on
the south side of Hart Street and the northwest
corner of Seething Lane in Tower Street Ward. It has been suggested that the church was founded
and built before the Norman conquest of a proper parrish
(Stow).
Crutched Friars was a street that ran east-west from Poor Jewry Lane to the east end of Hart
Street above Seething Lane. When
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. It was for the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart
Street was divided between Aldgate Ward
and Landbourn Ward. so called of a Priuiledge sometime
enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten,
so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was
instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).
Blanch Appleton was a manor on Fenchurch Street
next to St. Katherine Coleman in Aldgate Ward.
It is marked on the Agas map as Blanch chapelton
. discontinued,
and therefore forgotten, so as no-thing
remaineth for memorie, but the name of Mart Lane
(Stow 1598, sig. I1r).
The site was claimed by the Mayor and Commonality of the City in Blanch Appleton Court
(Harben).
Holy Trinity Priory, located west of Aldgate and north of Leadenhall
Street, was an Augustinian Priory. in the parishes of Saint Marie Magdalen, S. Michael, S. Katherine, and the blessed Trinitie, which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinitie
(Stow).
Before
Parish containing the St. Mary Magdalen Church.
One of the parishes that became part of Holy Trinity Priory
in
Made part of Holy Trinity Parish
in
Holy Trinity was located west of Aldgate and north of Leadenhall
Street. the Parishes of S. Marie Magdalen, S.
Michael, S. Katherine, and the blessed Trinitie,
which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinitie
(Stow). Before
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The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Portsoken Ward is east of Tower Street Ward and Aldgate Ward and is located outside the Wall. This ward was once called Knighten Guild, so named because the land which it encompasses was originally given to thirteen knights or soldiers who were the first members of the
the district outside a city or borough, over which its jurisdiction extends(
Not to be confused with St. Katherine Church, St. Katherine Cree was an old parish church in Aldgate Ward located on the
north side of Leadenhall Street between Aldgate and St. Mary Axe.
According to
Cornhill was a significant thoroughfare and was part of the cityʼs main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The name Cornhill
preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street, and of the topography of the site upon
which the Roman city of Londinium was built.
Note: Cornhill and Cornhill Ward are nearly synonymous in terms of location and nomenclature - thus, it can be a challenge to tell one from the other. Topographical decisions have been made to the best of our knowledge and ability.
Shaft Alley was near the
northwest corner of Leadenhall Street and St. Mary Axe Street in
Lime Street Ward. During the eighteenth century, the alley was directly
opposite East India House. laid [on iron hooks] along ouer the doores, and vnder the
Pentises of one rowe of houses, and Alley gate, called of the
shaft
(Stow). As an eyewitness,
Lime Street Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. The ward is named after its principle street, Lime Street, which takes its name from the making or ſelling of Lime there
, according to
Enduring for over three centuries, longer than any other London friary, Greyfriars garnered support
from both England’s landed elite and common Londoners. Founded in
London Wall was a long street running along the inside of the northern part of the City Wall. It ran east-west from the north end of Broad Street to Cripplegate (Prockter and Taylor 43). The modern London Wall street is a major traffic thoroughfare now. It follows roughly the route of the former wall, from Old Broad Street to the Museum of London (whose address is 150 London Wall).
One of the smallest London friaries, Crossed Friars (also known as
Crouched Friars or Crutched Friars) housed the
Lumley House was a large house on the west side of Woodroffe Lane, north of Tower
Hill. It was built by
during the
St. Katherine Coleman was also called St. Katherine and All Saints and All Hallows Coleman Church (Harben). The church can be found on the Agas map, west of Northumberland House. It is labelled
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THe ſecond warde within the wall on the eaſt part
is called Ealdgate warde, as taking
name of the
ſaide gate, the principall ſtreete of this warde be
gineth at Ealdgate,
ſtretching weſt to ſometime
a fayre wall, where now a pumpe is placed: from
thence
the way being deuided into twaine, the
firſt and principal ſtreete, called
Ealdgate ſtreete, runneth on the
Southſide, to Limeſtreete corner, and halfe
that ſtreete down
on the left hand, is alſo of that warde. In the mid way on that
South ſide, betwixt Ealdgate and Lymeſtreete, is Hart
horne
alley, a way that goeth through into Fenchurch ſtreete ouer a
gainſt Northumberlande
houſe. Then haue yee the Bricklayers
hall, and an other Alley called ſprinckle alley, of an holy water
Sprinkle
ſometime hanging there, now named Sugar loafe Alley
of the like ſigne. Then is there a fayre houſe: with diuers Tene
ments neare adioyning, ſometime belonging to a late
diſſolued
Priorie ſince poſſeſſed by CornewalliesHenry the 8
(as it was commonly ſaid) by her made, where with ſhe had preſen
ted him. Such was the princely liberality of
thoſe times. Of later
time,
ſomewhat more weſt,
is Belzetars lane, ſo called of the firſt
buil
der & owner thereof, now
corruptly called Billita lane, betwixt
this Belzettars lane, & Lymeſtreete, was of later time a frame of
three fayre houſes ſet vp in
the yere 1590. in place where, before
Thus much for the bounds: now for monuments, or places
moſt ancient and notable: I
am firſt to beginne with the late
diſſolued Priorie of the
Holy Trinitie called Chriſtes
Church,
on the right hand within Ealdgate. This Priorie was founded by
Henry the firſt
This ſhaft was not rayſed at any time ſince euill May day, (ſo
called of an
inſurrection made by Prentiſes, and other young per
ſons againſt Aliens in the yeare 1517) but the ſaid ſhaft
was laid
Soone after was there a commotion of the Commons in
Norfolke, Suffolke,
Eſſex, and other ſhires, by meanes where
of ſtreight orders being taken for the ſuppreſſion of
rumors) dy
uers perſons were apprehended and
executed by the martial Law,
amongſt the which the Baylife of Romford
in Eſſex was one, a
man very well beloued: hee was earely in the morning of Mary Magdalens
day
Now downe S. Mary ſtréete by the
Weſt ende of the church to
wardes the North,
ſtand diuers fayre houſes for Marchantes, and
other: namely one fayre great houſe,
builded by William Pickering
Then come you to the Pappey, a proper houſe, wherein
ſome
time was kept a Fraternitie, or
brotherhood of S. Charitie, and S.
Iohn Euangeliſt,
called the Papey, for poore impotent Prieſtes,
Then next is one great houſe large of roomes, fayre courts and
garden plottes,
ſometimes pertayning to the Baſſets, ſince that
to the Abbots of
Bury
in Suffolke, and therefore called
Buries
and ſuch like: the Fryers hall was made a glaſſe houſe, or houſe
wherein was made
glaſſe of diuers ſorts to drinke in: which houſe
in the yere 157 5.
on the
Then haue ye on the ſouth ſide of Fen church
ſtréete, ouer a
gainſt the wall,
amongſt other fayre and large builded houſes, one
that ſometime belonged to the
Prior of Monte Ioues, or monaſte
rie Cornute (a cell to Monte Ioues beyond the ſeas) in
Eſſex: it
was the Priors Inne, when he
repayred to this cittie. Then a
lane that leadeth downe by Northumberland houſe, towards the
croſſed Friers, as is afore ſhewed.
Northumberland houſe in the parriſh of S. Katherine Colman belonged to