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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 performed before
(Weinreb and Hibbert
67).
All Hallows, London Wall is a church built east of
Bishopsgate, near or on the City Wall. The church is visible on the Agas map
northwest of Broad Street and up against the south
side of the City Wall. The label All Haloues in y Wall
is west of the church. In
his description of Broad Street Ward, Stow notes only the location of the
church and the three distinguished people interred therein by 1601.
Broad Street ran north-south from All Hallows, London Wall to Threadneedle Street and to a Pumpe ouer against Saint
(Stow). Broad Street, labelled Bennets churchBrode Streat
on the Agas map, was entirely in
Broad Street Ward. The street’s name was a
reference to its width and importance (Harben).
Austin Friars was a church on the west side of Broad Street in Broad
Street Ward. It was formerly part of the Priory of Augustine Friars, established in 1253. At the dissolution
of the monastery in 1539, the West end [of the church] thereof inclosed from
the steeple, and Quier, was in the yeare 1550. graunted to the Dutch Nation in
London [by
(Stow). The Quier
and side Isles to the Quier adioyning, he reserued to housholde vses, as for
stowage of corne, coale, and other things
(Stow). The church, completely rebuilt in the nineteenth century and
then again mid-way through the twentieth century, still belongs to Dutch
Protestants to this day.
Throgmorton Street was in Broad Street Ward and ran east-west from Broad Street to Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane. Throgmorton Street appears unlabelled on the Agas map running west from Broad Street, under the Drapers’ Hall. Stow’s description of Throgmorton Street is somewhat more detailed than that of other streets because he had a personal connection to it: his father owned land there.
Draper’s Hall was a livery company hall on the
north side of Throgmorton Street in Broad Street Ward. On the Agas map, Drapers’ Hall appears as a large house with three
round towers, thus resembling the architecture of Hampton Court Palace and some
of the college gates at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Stow records that the hall was built by
Bartholomew Lane was in Broad Street Ward and ran north-south from the junction of Throgmorton Street and Lothbury to Threadneedle Street. Bartholomew Lane is visible on the Agas map running
southeast on the west side of St. Batholomew by the
Exchange. It is labelled bar eelmew
la
. Stow was the first to
record the street as Bartholomew Lane in the
Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in
Threadneedle Street ran east-west from Bishopsgate Street to Cornhill and the Stocks Market. It
passed the north end of the Royal Exchange and was
entirely in Broad Street Ward. Threadneedle Street, also called
The Stocks Market was a significant market for fish and flesh
in early modern London, located south of Poultry, north of Bucklersbury, and west of Walbrook Street in Cornhill Ward (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). The building of the Stocks Market was commissioned by
the only fixed pair of stocks in the city(Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). It was destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt, and then replaced in
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From John Stow, A Survey of London, 2nd ed. (London, 1603; STC #23343):
The next is Brodeſtreete warde, which beginneth within Biſhopſgate, from the water conduit weſtward on both the ſides of the ſtreete, by Alhallowes church to an Iron grate on the channell which runeth into the water courſe of Walbrooke before ye come to the Poſterne called Mooregate: and this is the fartheſt weſt part of that ward. Then haue ye Brodeſtreete, whereof the ward taketh name, which ſtretcheth out of the former ſtreet, from the Eaſt corner of Alhallowes churchyard, ſomewhat South to the pariſh Church of ſaint Peter the Poore on both ſides, and then by the ſouthgate of the Auguſtine Friers weſt, downe Throkmorton ſtreete by the Drapers hall into Lothburie, to another grate of Iron ouer the channell there, whereby the water runneth into the courſe of Walbrooke, under the Eaſt end of ſaint Margarets Church, certaine poſts of timber are there ſet up: and this is alſo the fartheſt weſt part of this ward, in the ſaid ſtreet. Out of the which ſtreete runneth up Bartholomew lane ſouth to the north ſide of theExchange, then more Eaſt out of the former ſtreet from ouer againſt the Friers Auguſtines church ſouth gate, runneth up another part of Brodeſtreete, ſouth to a Pumpe ouer againſt Saint Bennets church. Then haue ye one other ſtreete called Three needle ſtreete, beginning at the Well with two buckets, by ſaint Martins Otoſwich Church wall. This ſtreete runneth downe on both ſides to Finkes lane, and halfe way up that lane, to a gate of a Marchants houſe on the Weſt ſide, but not ſo farre on the Eaſt, then the foreſaid ſtreete, from this Finkes lane runneth downe by the Royall Exchange to the Stockes, and to a place formerly called Scalding houſe, or Scalding wicke, but now Scalding Alley, by the weſt ſide whereof under the pariſh Church of ſaint Mildred runneth the courſe of Walbrooke: and theſe bee the bounds of this warde.