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The Bricklayers’ Hall was east of Billiter Lane and stood on the south side of the street running west from the water pump near Aldgate. This street was named Leadenhall Street in the seventeenth century but was considered part of Aldgate Street when Stow was writing. Stow mentions the hall only in passing in his survey, so he neglects the hall’s appearance and history (Stow). The hall was incorporated in 1568 but by the eighteenth century the Bricklayers had abandoned it. Thereafter, it was used as a synagogue by Dutch Jews (Harben).
Holy Trinity Priory, located west of Aldgate and north of Leadenhall
Street, was an Augustinian Priory.
Stow notes that 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
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).
Lime Street is a street that ran north-south from Leadenhall Street in the north to Fenchurch Street in the south. It was west of St. Andrew Undershaft and east of Leadenhall. It appears that the street was so named because people made or sold Lime there (Stow; BHO). This claim has some historical merit; in the 1150s one Ailnoth the limeburner lived in the area (Harben; BHO).
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
Northumberland House was a stately home in Crutched Friars Lane, south of Aldgate. It was built by and named after
Billiter Lane ran north-west from
Fenchurch to Leadenhall, entirely in Aldgate Ward. Nearby landmarks included Blanch Appleton facing the opening of
Billiter Lane on the south side
of Fenchurch and Ironmongers’ Hall to the west of Billiter Lane on the north side of Fenchurch. Nearby churches were St. Catherine Cree on Leadenhall and All Hallows Staining adjacent to the Clothworkers’ Hall) and St. Katharine Coleman on Fenchurch. On the Agas map, Billiter Lane is labelled Bylleter la.
London Stone was, literally, a stone
that stood on the south side of what is now Cannon Street (formerly Candlewick Street). Probably Roman in origin, it is
one of London’s oldest relics. On the Agas map, it is visible as a small
rectangle between Saint Swithin’s
Lane and Walbrook, just
below the nd
consonant cluster in the label Londonſton
.
Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled
city. The name Aldgate
is thought to come from one of four sources:
Eastern gate
(Ekwall 36), ale
, public gate
or open to all
, or old gate
(Bebbington
20–21).
St. Mary Axe ran north-south from the church of St. Augustine Papey to Leadenhall Street. Stow remarks that the east side of the street belonged to Aldgate Ward, while the west side lay within the boundary of Lime Street Ward (Stow). It was named after the church of St. Mary Axe, located near the northwest corner of the street.
St Augustine Papey was a church on the south side
of the city wall and opposite the north end of
St. Mary Axe Street. The church dated from the
twelfth century and in
Bevis Marks was a street south of the City Wall that ran east-west from Shoemaker Row to the north end of St. Mary Axe Street. It was in Aldgate Ward. Bevis Marks was continued by Duke’s Place.
Crutched Friars was a street that ran east-west from Poor Jewry Lane to the east end of Hart Street above Seething Lane. When Stow wrote, most of Crutched Friars was known as Hart Street, so Stow only uses the name Crutched Friars to refer to Crutched Friars Priory (Harben). Since Stow does not name the street that ran from Aldgate to Woodroffe Lane, it could have been known as Hart Street, Crutched Friars, or something different.
Woodroffe Lane ran north-south from Crutched Friars south to Tower Hill. The lane was
in Aldgate Ward and was named after the Woodruffe family
(Harben). Stow writes that the lane was a
place of great benevolence. There were fourteen proper almes houses
built from brick and
wood in Woodruffe Lane and the tenants haue their
dewllinges rent free, and ii.s. iiii.d. the peece: the first day of euery moneth for euer
(Stow).
Tower Hill was a large area of open ground north and
west of the Tower of London. It is most famous as a place of execution;
there was a permanent scaffold and gallows on the hill for the execution of
such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of
London
(Stow).
Hart Street ran east-west from Crutched Fryers and the north end of Seething Lane to Mark Lane. In Stow’s time, the street began much further east, running from the north end of Woodroffe Lane to Mark Lane (Harben; Stow).
Seething Lane ran north-south from the junction of
Hart Street and Crutch
Fryers through to Tower Street. The
lane, in Tower Street Ward, was marked by a church
at each end; on the northwest corner stood St. Olave,
Hart Street and on the southeast corner was All
Hallows Barking. Stow describes the lane as one with diuers
fayre and large houses
(Stow).
St. Olave (Southwark) was a church dedicated to S. Tovolles
.
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. It was for the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart
Street was divided between Aldgate Ward
and Landbourn Ward. Stow says Mark Lane was so called of a Priuiledge sometime
enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten,
so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was
instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).
Blanch Appleton was a manor on Fenchurch Street
next to St. Katherine Coleman in Aldgate Ward.
It is marked on the Agas map as Blanch chapelton
. discontinued,
and therefore forgotten, so as no-thing
remaineth for memorie, but the name of Mart Lane
(Stow 113).
The site was claimed by the Mayor and Commonality of the City in Blanch Appleton Court
(Harben).
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This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s
1603 description of Aldgate Ward. In this section, Stow traces the
jurisdictional boundaries of the ward, indicating where it abuts other wards. It
is Stow’s general habit to map out each ward before he begins his detailed
street-by-street description of its history and features. Aldgate Ward was home to three halls: Bricklayers’ Hall, Ironmongers’ Hall, and Fletchers’
Hall
The ſecond ward within the wall on the eaſt part is called Aldgate ward, as taking name of the ſame Gate: the principall ſtreet of this warde beginneth
at Aldgate, ſtretching well to ſometime a fayre
Well, where now a pumpe is placed: from thence the way being diuided into twain,
the firſt & principall ſtreet caled Aldgate
ſtreet, runneth on the ſouthſide to Limeſtreet corner and halfe that ſtreete downe on the left hand, is
alſo of that warde. In the mid way on that South ſide, betwixt Aldgate and Limeſtreet, is Hart horne Alley, a way that goeth through into Fenchurch ſtreete ouer againſt Northumberland houſe. Then haue ye the Bricklayers
hall and an other Alley called Sprinckle Alley, now named Sugar-loafe Alley, of
the like ſigne. Then is there a faire houſe, with diuerſe tenements neare
adioyning, ſometime belonging to a late diſſolued Priorie ſince poſſeſſed by
Miſtreſſe Cornewallies, widow, and her heyres, by the gift of
On the North ſide this principall ſtreet ſtretcheth to the weſt corner of Saint Andrewes Church, and then the ward turneth towards the North by S. Marie ſtreete, on the Eaſt ſide to Saint Auguſtines Church in the wall, and ſo by Buries markes [Bevis Marks] again, or about by the wall to Aldgate.
The ſecond way from aldgate more towards the South from the pumpe aforesaid is called Fenchurch ſtreete, and is of Aldgate warde till ye come to Culuer Alley, on the weſt ſide of Ironmongers hall, where ſometime was a lane which went out of Fenchurch ſtreete to the middeſt of Limeſtreete, but this lane was ſtopped up, for ſuſpition of theeues that lurked there by night. Againe to Aldgate out of the principall ſtreete, euen by the gate, and wall of the Citie, runneth a lane South to Crowched Friers, and then Woodroffe lane to the Tower hill, and out fo this lane weſt, a ſtreete called Hartſtreete, which of that warde ſtretcheth to Sydon lane by Saint Olaues Church. One other lane more weſt from Aldgate goeth by Northumberland houſe toward the Croſſed Friers: then haue ye on the ſame ſide the North end of Martlane, and Blanch Arleton, where that ward endeth.