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Friday Street passed south through Bread Street Ward, beginning at the cross in Cheapside Street and ending at Old Fish Street. It was one of many streets that ran into Cheapside Street market whose name is believed to originate from the goods that were sold there.
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Friday Street passed south through Bread Street Ward, beginning at the cross in Cheapside Street and ending at Old Fish Street. It was one of many streets that ran into Cheapside Street market whose name is believed to originate from the goods that were sold there.
Stow writes of the street’s name: Fryday
streete so called of fishmongers dwelling there, and serving
Frydayes market
(Stow 1:351). Modern
scholars agree, stating that Friday
Street was probably the market where medieval fishmongers sold their
wares on Fridays, when meat was forbidden to Catholic England
(Bebbington 137). Ben Weinreb and
Christopher Hibbert, however, suggest that the name may also be a corruption
of the old English name Frigdaeges,
and the street may have originally have been dedicated to a man so called
(Weinreb and Hibbert 302).
Friday Street did not have many sites
of historical importance aside from the three churches that stood there. The
churches of Friday Street were St.
Margaret Moses, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Matthew.
All three of Friday Street’s churches have been destroyed, and today only a small portion of the original street exists. Since the Victorian era, Friday Street has become a small lane that runs from Queen Victoria Street to Cannon Street (Weinreb and Hibbert 303).
See also: Chalfant 84.