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T1 - Gunfoundry
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DA - 2022/05/05
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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The Gunfoundry was a large house and enclosed yard
on the north side of Houndsditch where cannon and
Brasse Ordinance
were made (Stow). It was in Portsoken
Ward. According to brethren
(Stow).
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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(
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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TheGunfoundry was a large house and enclosed yard
on the north side of Houndsditch where cannon and
Brasse Ordinance
were made (Stow). It was in Portsoken
Ward. According to brethren
(Stow).
Historical records do not indicate how long the foundry lasted. The yard appears
on Blome’s 1720 map of Portsoken Ward as
gunyard
(Blome), though it is presumed that the foundry itself
was turned into a normal house by the time that map was made.
On the Agas map, the Gunfoundry is the third enclosed yard west of St. Botolph, Aldgate (there is a cannon in that yard).