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T1 - Aldersgate Ward
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CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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Cripplegate Ward is east of Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward, encompassing area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward is named after Cripplegate.
Aldersgate was one of London’s four original gates (Stow 1598, sig. C7r), labelled Alders gate
on the Agas map. The gate was likely built into the Wall of London during the Roman Conquest, marking the northern entrance into the city.
Maiden Lane (Wood Street)
was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood
Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.
Staining Lane ran north-south, starting at Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the south and turning into Oat Lane in the north. It is drawn correctly on the Agas map and is labelled as Stayning la
. It served as a boundary between Cripplegate and Aldersgate wards.
Located at the junction of
Ingen Lane (otherwise known as Maiden Lane, and now forming part of Gresham Street) and
Staining Lane, the Haberdashers’s Hall was the meeting place for the
Wood Street ran north-south, connecting at its southernmost end with Cheapside Street and continuing northward to Little Wood Street, which led directly into Cripplegate. It crossed over Huggin Lane, Lad Lane, Maiden Lane (Wood Street), Love Lane, Addle Lane, and Silver Street, and ran parallel to Milk Street in the east and Gutter Lane in the west. Wood Street lay within Cripplegate Ward. It is labelled as Wood Streat
on the Agas map and is drawn in the correct position.
Oat Lane ran east-west, connecting Noble Street in the west to Staining Lane in the east. It is drawn on the Agas map in the correct position and is labelled as Ote la
. It was in Aldersgate Ward.
Noble Street ran north-south between Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the south and Silver Street in the north. It is all of Aldersgate street ward
(Stow). On the Agas map, it is labelled as Noble Str.
and is depicted as having a right-hand curve at its north end, perhaps due to an offshoot of the London Wall.
Noble Street is not to be confused with Watling Street, which bears Noble
as a variant toponym.
Foster Lane ran north-south between Cheapside in the south and Oat Lane in the north. It crossed Lily Pot Lane, St. Anne’s Lane, Maiden Lane (Wood Street), and Carey Lane. It sat between St. Martin’s Lane to the west and Gutter Lane to the east. Foster Lane is drawn on the Agas Map in the correct position, labelled as Forster Lane
.
Gutter Lane ran north-south from Cheapside to Maiden Lane (Wood Street). It is to the west of Wood Street and to the east of Foster Lane, lying within the north-eastern most area of Farringdon Ward Within and serving as a boundary to Aldersgate ward. It is labelled as Goutter Lane
on the Agas map.
Carey Lane ran east-west, connecting Gutter Lane in the east and Foster Lane in the west. It ran parallel between Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the north and Cheapside Street in the south. The Agas Map labels it Kerie la
.
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
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
According to a small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments
(Stow 1598, sig. K3v). It was destroyed in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt (Carlin and Belcher 91).
Silver Street was a small but historically significant street that ran east-west, emerging out of Noble Street in the west and merging into Addle Street in the east. Monkwell Street (labelled Muggle St.
on the Agas map) lay to the north of Silver Street and seems to have marked its westernmost point, and Little Wood Street, also to the north, marked its easternmost point. Silver Street ran through Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward. It is labelled as Syluer Str.
on the Agas map and is drawn correctly. Perhaps the most noteworthy historical fact about Silver Street is that it was the location of one of the houses in which
St. Anne’s Lane ran east-west from Foster Lane to St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand). It was named after the Church of St. Anne and St. Agnes and is also called Pope Lane by so called of one
(Stow 1598, sig. K2v, K4r). According to Sugden, St. Anne’s Lane might have included St. Anne’s Alley as well, forming one long lane between St. Martin’s and Noble St
(Sugden). Because Harben and
St. Anne’s Alley ran north out of St. Anne’s Lane to Noble Street, passing from the church of St. Anne and St. Agnes to its churchyard (Harben). It now exists merely [as] a pathway through the churchyard to the church
(Harben). St. Anne’s Alley, according to Sugden, might have been a part of St. Anne’s Lane, forming one long lane between St. Martin’s and Noble St
(Sugden). Because Harben and
Cripplegate was one of the original gates in the city wall (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 221; Harben). It was the northern gate of a large fortress that occupied the northwestern corner of the Roman city.
Farringdon Within Ward shares parts of its eastern and southern borders with the western and northern boundaries of Castle Baynard Ward. This ward is called
St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand) ran north-south between St. Anne’s Lane and Cheapside Street and was located at the western edge of Aldersgate Ward. The street takes its name from the church of St. Martin’s le Grand located to the east of the street. This portion of the Agas map is labelled
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).
Aldersgate Bars marked the limits of the city liberties at the north end of Aldersgate Street.
A priory of Augustinian canons once encompassing St. Bartholomew the Great, St. Bartholomew the Less, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dissolved by
According to
Aldersgate Ward is west of Cripplegate Ward. Both the ward and its main street are named after Aldersgate, the north gate of the city.
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Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.
Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel was an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication
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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Knight. Owner of Bacon House (also known as Shelley House).
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Aldersgate Ward is west of Cripplegate Ward. Both the ward and its main street are named after Aldersgate, the north gate of the city.
The following diplomatic transcription of the opening paragraph(s) of the 1603 chapter on this ward will eventually be subsumed into the MoEML edition of the 1603
THe next is Alderſgate Ward, taking name of that
north gate of the citie, this ward alſo conſiſteth of diuers ſtreets and lanes,
lying aſwell within the gate and wall, as without, and firſt to ſpeak of that
part within the gate thus it is. The eaſt part thereof ioyneth vnto the weſt
part of Criplegate warde in Engain lane or Maiden
lane. It beginneth on the north ſide of that lane, at Stayning Lane end, and runneth vppe from the Haberdaſhers Hall, to S. Mary Staining Church: and
by the church eaſt winding almoſt to Woodſtreete:
and weſt through Oatelane, & then by the ſouth
ſide of Bacon houſe in Noble ſtreete, backe againe
by Lilipot lane, which is alſo of that ward, to Maiden
lane, and ſo on that north ſide weſt to S. Iohn Sacharies church, and
to Faſter lane. Now on the ſouth ſide of Ingaine or Mayden
lane is the weſt ſide of Guthuruns lane,
to Kery lane, and Kery
Lane itſelf (which is of this ward) and backe again into Engainlane, by the north ſide of the Goldſmithes hall, to Faſter
lane: and this is the Eaſt wing of this ward. Then is Foſter lane almoſt wholy of this Warde, beginneth
in the ſouth toward Cheape, on the Eaſt ſide by by the north side of S. Fosters church and runneth down North west by the weſt ende of Engaine lane, by Lilipot lane,
and Oate lane, to Noble
ſtreete, and through that by Shelly houſe (of old time ſo called, as
belonging to the Shelleyes)
Then again in Foſter lane this ward beginneth on the Weſt ſide thereof, ouer againſt the South weſt corner of S. Foſters church, and runneth downe by S. Leonards church by Pope lane end, and by S. Anns lane end, which lane is alſo of this ward, north to the ſtone wall by the wall of the Citty, ouer againſt Bacon houſe: which ſtone wall, and ſo down north to Criplegate on that ſide, is of Faringdon ward.
Then haue yee the maine ſtreete of this warde, which is called S. Martins lane, including Saint Martin on the Eaſt ſide thereof, and ſo downe on both the ſides to Alderſgate. And theſe be the boundes of this ward within the wall and gate.
Without the gate, the maine ſtreet called Alderſgate
ſtreete runneth vp North on the eaſt ſide, to the weſt ende of Howndes ditch or Barbican ſtreete: A part of which
ſtreete is alſo of this warde. And on the weſt ſide to Long lane, a part whereof is likewiſe of this ward. Beyond the which
Alderſgate ſtreet, is Goſewell ſtreete vp to the Barres.
And on this weſt ſide of Alderſgate ſtreete, by S. Buttolphes church is Briton ſtreet, which runneth weſt to a pumpe, and then north to the gate, which entreth the churchyeard ſometime pertaining to the Priory of S. Bartholomew, on the eaſt ſide: and on the weſt ſide towards S. Bartholomewes ſpittle, to a paire of poſtes there fixed. And theſe be the boundes of this Alderſgate ward without.
Ward boundaries drawn on the Agas map are approximate. The Agas map does not lend itself well to georeferencing or georectification, which means that we have not been able to import the raster-based or vector-based shapes that have been generously offered to us by other projects. We have therefore used our drawing tools to draw polygons on the map surface that follow the lines traced verbally in the opening paragraph(s) of each ward chapter in the