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T1 - Churches in Aldgate
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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Aldgate Ward is located within the London Wall and east of Lime Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Aldgate Street, are named after Aldgate, the eastern gate into the walled city (Stow 1633, sig. N6v).
Not to be confused with St. Katherine Church, St. Katherine Cree was an old parish church in Aldgate Ward located on the
north side of Leadenhall Street between Aldgate and St. Mary Axe.
St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of
St. Katherine Coleman was also called St. Katherine and All Saints and All Hallows Coleman Church (Harben). The church can be found on the Agas map, west of Northumberland House. It is labelled
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
Leadenhall Street ran east-west from Cornhill Street to Aldgate Street. All three form part of the same road from Aldgate to Cheapside Street (Weinreb and Hibbert 462). The street acquired its name from Leadenhall, a onetime house and later a market. The building was reportedly famous for having a leaden roof (Bebbington 197).
Parish containing the St. Mary Magdalen Church.
One of the parishes that became part of Holy Trinity Priory in
One of the parishes that became part of Holy Trinity Priory
in
St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate) is an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in
St. Michael, Aldgate, was an old parish church that
was absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108 along
with the parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, Aldgate,
and St. Katherine Cree. According to a papal bull
written during the pontificate of
St. Katherine, Aldgate was an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory
in
St. Mary Axe ran north-south from the church of St. Augustine Papey to Leadenhall
Street.
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).
The church of St. Mary Axe was a church on the west side of St. Mary Axe
Street in Lime Street Ward. S. 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
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
Saint Katherine Christs Church
(Stow 1633, sig. O4r), Saint Andrew Vndershaft
(Stow 1633, sig. O4v), and S. Katharine, called Coleman
(Stow 1633, sig. P1v). MoEML however, links four churches to entries in our encyclopedia. This discrepancy is the result of different ways of thinking about the churches:
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Saint Katherine Christs Church
(Stow 1633, sig. O4r), Saint Andrew Vndershaft
(Stow 1633, sig. O4v), and S. Katharine, called Coleman
(Stow 1633, sig. P1v). MoEML however, links four churches to entries in our encyclopedia. This discrepancy is the result of different ways of thinking about the churches: Crychur
, even through the buildings were now owned by various merchants and courtiers. Just south of this complex, on Leadenhall Street, stands the parish church of St. Katherine Cree.
Our encyclopedia has separate entries for St. Katherine Cree and for Holy Trinity Priory (Christ Church), but the two institutions have an entwined history.
Parish of Holy Trinity.
Chrychur.
St. Andrew Undershaft was on the western edge of the ward, on the west side of St. Mary Axe Street and behind a row of houses that fronted the north side of Aldgate Street. It was right across the street from the former St. Mary Axe, which had been given to the Parish of St. Andrew (Undershaft) in
St. Katherine Coleman was in the southern half of the ward, on the south side of Fenchurch Street.