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A1 - Adams, Neil
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T1 - St. Botolph (Aldgate)
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CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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St. Botolph, Aldgate was a parish church near Aldgate at the junction of Aldgate Street and Houndsditch. It was
located in Portsoken Ward on the north side of
Aldgate Street. Church hath beene lately new builded at the speciall charges of the
Priors of the holy Trinitie
before
the Priory was dissolved in
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Research Assistant, 2010–2011. Neil Adams completed a BA (first class honours) in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) in 2008, and an MA in History at the University of Victoria in 2010. His MA paper analyzed the historiography of Canadian conscripts during the Second World War. A keen historian of early modern London, Neil Adams was responsible for redrawing the ward boundaries on the Agas Map.
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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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).
Running southeast from Bishopsgate Street to Aldgate Street outside the city wall,
Houndsditch Street passed through Bishopsgate Ward and Portsoken Ward.
It was first paved in (within the limits of Hounds-ditch)
dwell many a good and honest Citizen
(Stow 1633, sig. M1v).
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(
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
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St. Botolph (Aldgate) was a parish church near Aldgate at the junction of Aldgate Street and Houndsditch. It was
located in Portsoken Ward on the north side of
Aldgate Street. Church hath beene lately new builded at the speciall charges of the
Priors of the holy Trinitie
before
the Priory was dissolved in [t]he Parishioners of this parish being of late
yeares mightily increased, the Church is pestered with loftes and seates for
them
(Stow). The
church was pulled down and rebuilt between
Also known as St. Botolph without Aldgate, the
church stands immediately northeast of Aldgate on
the Agas map, beneath the label
S.
Buttolphes
.
For more information on St. Botolph, Aldgate see their website.