Leathersellers’ Hall
The Leathersellers Hall was a hall belonging to the
Leathersellers in Bishopsgate Ward east of Bishopsgate Street and north of St. Helens church. TheLeathersellers Hall is not instantly recognizable on the Agas map. It
is one of the houses north of St. Helens church
and south of the walled garden by the west end of St.
Mary Axe church. The hall is, however, featured on Richard Blome’s
1755 map of Bishopsgate Ward.
The hall was once the Hall of St. Helens Priory,
but at the dissolution of that religious house it was purchased by the company
of Leathersellers. Unfortunately, Stow provides no description of the hall
itself, but he does mention how it was purchased by the Leathersellers along
with
other Companie [buildings] thereunto appertaining(Stow). This old hall remained in situ
until 1799, when it was taken down for the formation of St. Helen’s Place(Harben).
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Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Reprint. British History Online. Subscription. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Locations
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Bishopsgate Ward
MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.Bishopsgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishopsgate Street
Bishopsgate Street ran north from Cornhill Street to the southern end of Shoreditch Street at the city boundary. South of Cornhill, the road became Gracechurch Street, and the two streets formed a major north-south artery in the eastern end of the walled city of London, from London Bridge to ShoreditchImportant sites included: Bethlehem Hospital, commonly corrupted to the short form -bedlam, a mental hospital and Bull Inn, where plays were performedbefore Shakespeare’s time
(Weinreb and Hibbert 67).Bishopsgate Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate)
St. Helen’s was a priory of Benedictine nuns located in Bishopsgate Ward between St. Mary Axe Street and Bishopsgate Street. St. Helen’s is visible on the Agas map with the labelS. Elen
written in the churchyard. Stow and Harben inform us that the priory was set up in 1212 by William Basing, the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral (Stow; Harben).St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Axe
The church of St. Mary Axe was a church on the west side of St. Mary Axe Street in Lime Street Ward. Stow asserts the church’s full name and dedication wasS. Marie the virgine, Saint Vrsula, and the 11000. Virgins
and believed that its common name, St. Mary Axe, derived from a sign near the church’s east side (Stow). However, a document written during the reign of Henry VIII suggests a different history of its name. The church, dedicated to 11,000 martyred virgins, supposedly contained the three axes that were used in their executions (Harben).St. Mary Axe is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Leathersellers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers
The Leathersellers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.leathersellers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
Variant spellings
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Documents using the spelling
Le thersellers hall
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Documents using the spelling
Leathersellers Hall
