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Charterhouse Lane was a narrow road that ran north-south between the London Charterhouse and St. John’s Street. The street earned its name due to its proximity to the London Charterhouse, which housed Carthusian monks. Following the dissolution of London monasteries
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Charterhouse Lane was a narrow road marking the passage between St. John’s Street and one of three gates to the London Charterhouse. The lane began as an alleyway intersecting with St. John’s Street north of Smithfield before broadening as it arched north towards the London Charterhouse. The street earned its name due to its proximity to the London Charterhouse, which housed Carthusian monks prior to the dissolution of London monasteries
[a] little without the Barres of West Smithfield is Charterhouse lane, so called, for that it leadeth to the said plot of the late dissolved Monastery(Stow). Indeed, much of Charterhouse Lane’s historical reputation derives from its proximity to the Charterhouse. Little is known about Charterhouse Lane prior to the sixteenth-century, when the Charterhouse became a site of religious controversy. Historical records of Charterhouse Lane proliferate after theI.e.,TheCharterhouse.
In the wake of dissolution, Charterhouse Lane became increasingly associated with poverty and illicit behavior. Tenements and courts grew out of the narrow alleys intersecting with the street, packing in residences (see above), which met the demand for cheap housing. The most notorious of these tenements was Frogwell Court, known for its cramped and squalid living conditions (Temple). In
This Song being ended, they went to revelling till ten of the clock the next day, by which time, they having ſatiſfied themselves with chamber exerciſe, they fetcht a walk towards Smithfield, and went into Charter-houſe lane, where they had a leſſon played on the Organs, danced mixed dancesAfter this, ſome of the creatures went into rooms apart to milk and fodder; and others (whose chiefeſt pleasure was in drinking) ſung [a] catch.
mixed dances
and the chiefest pleasure
of alcohol, perhaps as a result of its impoverished reputation.
Charterhouse Lane was relatively unaffected by the Great Fire of