Gracechurch Street
Agas MapList documents mentioning Gracechurch Street- Bishopsgate Street
- Bishopsgate Ward
- Bridge Within Ward
- Cordwainer Street Ward
- Eastcheap
- Excerpt from London Survey’d
- Excerpt from Nine Worthies of London
- Excerpts from The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Fenchurch Street
- Historical Personography
- Langbourn Ward
- Leadenhall Street
- Lombard Street
- New Fish Street
- Petition of the Water Bearers
- Soper Lane
- St. Michael (Cornhill)
- St. Peter upon Cornhill
- Survey of London (1598): Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Bridge Ward Within
- Survey of London (1598): Broad Street Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Cornhill Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Langbourn Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Lime Street Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Orders and Customs
- Survey of London (1598): Rivers and Other Waters
- Survey of London (1598): Schools and Houses of Learning
- Survey of London (1598): The City Divided into Parts
- Survey of London (1598): Watches in London
- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within
- Survey of London (1633): Broad Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Cordwainer Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Cornhill Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Langbourn Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Lime Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Orders and Customs
- Survey of London (1633): Rivers and Other Waters
- Survey of London (1633): Schools and Houses of Learning
- Survey of London (1633): The City Divided into Parts
- The Carriers’ Cosmography
- The Magnificent Entertainment
- Variant spellings
List variant names and spellingsGarscherch street | Grace Church | Gracechurch | Gracechurch Street | Gracechurch street | Gracious Street | Gracious street | Gracious streete | Gracious stréet | Gracious-street | Gracious-streete | Graschestret | Grasse Street | Grasse-Church | Grasse-Church street | Grasse-church | Grasse-street | Grassestreet | Gratious Street | Gratious streete | Graſtreet | Graſſe church | Graſſe church ſtreete | Graſſe ſtreet | Graſſe ſtreete | Graſſe ſtréet | Graſſe ſtréete | Graſſe-ſtreet | Graſſeſtreet | Graſſeſtreete
Gracechurch or Gracious
Street was a late Anglo-Saxon street. It seems to have been built
around the same time as London Bridge (tenth or
eleventh century), to which it provided access.
Gracechurch Street ran north-south from Cornhill Street near Leadenhall Market to the bridge. At the southern end, it was called
New Fish Street.North of Cornhill, Gracechurch continued as Bishopsgate Street, leading through Bishop’s Gate out of the walled city into the suburb of Shoreditch.
When the Burbage brothers (Richard and Cuthbert) dismantled the Theatre at Christmas 1598 in order to rebuild it as the
Globe in Southwark, it is very likely
that they brought the timbers on carts from Shoreditch down Bishopsgate Street,
Gracechurch Street, and New Fish Street, and thence across the Thames to
their new property on the south bank of the Thames just west of the bridge.
Gracechurch Street was on the royal processional route. When a king or queen
entered the City from the Tower, he or she stopped
in Gracechurch Street to witness the first of a
series of pageants prepared in London to welcome the new monarch.
See also: Chalfant 88.
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Chalfant, Fran C. Ben Jonson’s London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1978. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Gracechurch Street.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. . Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/GRAC1.htm.
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2022. Gracechurch Street. In (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/GRAC1.htm.
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Locations
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Cornhill
Cornhill was a significant thoroughfare and was part of the cityʼs main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The nameCornhill
preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street, and of the topography of the site upon which the Roman city of Londinium was built.Note: Cornhill and Cornhill Ward are nearly synonymous in terms of location and nomenclature - thus, it can be a challenge to tell one from the other. Topographical decisions have been made to the best of our knowledge and ability.Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Leadenhall is mentioned in the following documents:
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New Fish Street
New Fish Street (also known in the seventeenth century as Bridge Street) ran north-south from London Bridge at the south to the intersection of Eastcheap, Gracechurch Street, and Little Eastcheap in the north (Harben 432; BHO). At the time, it was the main thoroughfare to London Bridge (Sugden 191). It ran on the boundary between Bridge Within Ward on the west and Billingsgate Ward on the east. It is labelled on the Agas map asNew Fyſhe ſtreate.
Variant spellings includeStreet of London Bridge,
Brigestret,
Brugestret,
andNewfishstrete
(Harben 432; BHO).New Fish Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishopsgate Street
Bishopsgate Street ran north from Cornhill Street to the southern end of Shoreditch Street at the city boundary. South of Cornhill, the road became Gracechurch Street, and the two streets formed a major north-south artery in the eastern end of the walled city of London, from London Bridge to Shoreditch. Important sites included: Bethlehem Hospital, a mental hospital, and Bull Inn, a place where plays were performedbefore Shakespeare’s time
(Weinreb and Hibbert 67).Bishopsgate Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Shoreditch
A suburban neighbourhood located just north of Moorfields and outside Londonʼs City Wall, Shoreditch was a focal point of early modern theatrical culture. Following a boom in Londonʼs population from 1550 to 1600, the neighbourhood became a prime target for development. The building of the Theatre in 1576 and the Curtain in the following year established Shoreditchʼs reputation as Londonʼs premier entertainment district, and the neigbourhood also featured a growing number of taverns, alehouses, and brothels. These latter establishments were often frequented by local players, of whom many prominent members were buried on the grounds of nearby St. Leonardʼs Church. Today, Shoreditch faces the potential revival of its early modern theatrical culture through the efforts of the Museum of London Archaeology and the Tower Hamlets Theatre Company.Shoreditch is mentioned in the following documents:
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London Bridge
As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until 1729, London Bridge was a focal point of the city. After its conversion from wood to stone, completed in 1209, the bridge housed a variety of structures, including a chapel and a growing number of shops. The bridge was famous for the cityʼs grisly practice of displaying traitorsʼ heads on poles above its gatehouses. Despite burning down multiple times, London Bridge was one of the few structures not entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.London Bridge is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Globe
The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which William Shakespeare was a shareholder. It was one of the theatres at which the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, regularly performed. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the Globe, along with the works of many other playwrights. It was an open-air, polygonal theatre with standing room around a thrust stage and three levels of gallery seating. It was built in 1599, burnt down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction now stands a short distance from the site of the original in Bankside.The Globe is mentioned in the following documents:
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Variant spellings
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Garscherch street
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Grace Church
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Gracechurch
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Gracechurch Street
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Gracious Street
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Grasse Street
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- Survey of London (1633): The City Divided into Parts
- Survey of London (1633): Cordwainer Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Langbourn Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within
- Survey of London (1633): Lime Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Broad Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Cornhill Ward
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