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Abchurch Lane runs north-south from
Lombard Street to Candlewick Street. The
Agas Map labels it Abchurche
lane
. It lies mainly in Candlewick
Street Ward, but part of it serves as the boundary between Langbourne Ward and Candlewick Street Ward.
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Abchurch Lane runs north-south from
Lombard Street to Candlewick Street. The
Agas Map labels it Abchurche
lane
. It lies mainly in Candlewick
Street Ward, but part of it serves as the boundary between Langbourne Ward and Candlewick Street Ward.
While the lane clearly takes its name from the church built therein, the
etymology is nonetheless obscure. beating the bounds
of the two wards. The reference in Langbourne Ward is terse, but the Candlewick Street Ward reference
elaborates the indeterminacy of
Then is Abchurch lane, which is on both the sides, almost wholly of this ward [Candlewick Street Ward], ye parish church there (called of S. Marie Abchurch, Apechurch, or Upchurch, as I haue read it) standeth somewhat neere vnto the south ende thereof, on a rising ground: it is a faire church[.]
On the Agas Map, the church appears on the west side of Abchurch Lane, about a third of the way up. It is
marked with the letter U (Prockter and
Taylor 23, 33). While the church was built in the twelfth century
(Smith 11), the street is first
mentioned in written records in the thirteenth century (Ekwall 159). Ekwall speculates that the church took
its name from an early incumbent
named Abba or Aba, a documented Old
English name (Ekwall 159). Weinreb and
Hibbert speculate that the name was originally Upchurch
, referring to the topography of the
street. The church stands on slightly rising ground (Weinreb and Hibbert 2), as
The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed the medieval church building. St. Mary Abchurch was rebuilt by
The street has been home to a number of famous landmarks, mainly having to do
with food. In the early seventeenth century, the lane was renowned for the
cakes referred to in
(Weinreb
and Hibbert 2). Later, it became known for an eating establishment
named Pontack’s, popular with the Augustan satirists
Another famous institution once operated in Abchurch Lane. The insurance company Lloyd’s of London began in
a coffeehouse once owned by