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ER - The Old Cross on Cheapside Street had long been demolished by the early modern era, but its memory persised well into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via texts like the stood and remained at the East end of the Parish Church, called S. Michael in the Corne by Pauls gate, neer to the North end of the Old-Exchange, till the yeere
when the Old Cross was demolished to make way for the expansion of St. Michael Le Querne (Stow 1633, sig. 2B2v). Culturally, the Old Cross is perhaps best remembered as the place where
Research Assistant, 2018-2021. Lucas Simpson was a student at the University of Victoria.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
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focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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Lord High Treasurer
Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many
Cheap Ward is west of Bassinghall Ward and Coleman Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Cheapside, are named after West Cheap (the market).
According to the Virtual Pauls’ Cross Project, St. Paul’s Gate (northern) was located at the intersection of Paternoster Row and Cheapside Street and gave access to St Paul’s Churchyard from the northeast (VPCP). Carlin and Belcher’s 1270 map simply labels the gate as
Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in
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The Old Cross on Cheapside Street had long been demolished by the early modern era, but its memory persised well into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via texts like the stood and remained at the East end of the Parish Church, called S. Michael in the Corne by Pauls gate, neer to the North end of the Old-Exchange, till the yeere
when the Old Cross was demolished to make way for the expansion of St. Michael Le Querne (Stow 1633, sig. 2B2v). Culturally, the Old Cross is perhaps best remembered as the place where