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The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Located on the banks of the Thames, Baynard’s Castle was built sometime
in the by
(Weinreb and Hibbert 129). The castle passed to
who by forfeyture for
fellonie, lost his Baronie of little Dunmow
(Stow 1: 61). From the time it was built, Baynard’s Castle was the headquarters of London’s
army until the reign of
when it was handed over to the Dominican Friars,
the Blackfriars whose name is still commemorated along that part of the
waterfront
(Hibbert 10).
London Wall was a long street running along the inside of the northern part of the City Wall. It ran east-west from the north end of Broad Street to Cripplegate (Prockter and Taylor 43). The modern London Wall street is a major traffic thoroughfare now. It follows roughly the route of the former wall, from Old Broad Street to the Museum of London (whose address is 150 London Wall).
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).
Cheapside, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
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Over the course of history, many houses of worship have been erected on the
London was the
metropolis of the East Saxons, and the hill on which the cathedral now
stands was, in some sort, the central point of London
(409). The church of Saint Paul was built in 604 under the auspices of
King
Ethelred.
Its monastery served as the burial place of bishops and, on some occasions,
of royalty.
In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The
church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again.
An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king
to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would
become the cathedral of St. Paul’s
which survived until the Great Fire of 1666. His work was continued by
The church was renovated in 1175–56, and again in the thirteenth century.
Permission had been granted in 1205 to build a marketplace to the east of
the church, and the New Work
began in 1251 (414). Various Welsh, Irish, and Scottish bishops
offered indulgences to penitents who aided in the project. By 1283, the
major part of the building had been completed. Problems arose between the
church, the city, and the state on issues such as boundaries, and the right
to open the churchyard’s gates, but by 1285 the majority of these disputes
were resolved.
In the early part of the fourteenth century, much care was taken to add to
the church and to repair that which already stood. In 1300, it was ordained
that all donations to the cathedral be used for the
Under given for
the king’s grace
(416).
It would seem that the Almighty was in favour
of the destruction begun by On Wednesday being the fourth day of June in the year of our Lord 1561
The stone structure remained, but the tower, steeple, and timberwork were
incinerated.
In spite of its ruinous state, the cathedral and its churchyard remained a centre of activity in London. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Paul’s churchyard was the principal bookselling venue of the city. It was also a centre of socializing and loud gossiping, much to the chagrin of those attending services at the adjacent choir. Proclamations were read to the people there, and, in January of 1606, four of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot were marched in a procession from the Tower, along Cheapside street to Paul’s churchyard, where they were executed (Williamson 224).
Religious activity did not cease at Old
Paul’s. In Elizabethan and early Stuart London, it led a sacred
and secular double life. The churchyard and part of the cathedral itself were
the site of trade and socializing, but sermons were still preached both
inside and out of the church, to crowds of citizens whose ears were itching
for political allusions or for nice points of theology or of ethics
(Times 112).
In the early part of the seventeenth century, much ado was made about the
restoration of St. Paul’s. A royal
commission was formed to restore and maintain the church in 1620. Court
architect
See also Gossip at Paul’s Walking, Bookselling at Paul’s Churchyard, Dean John Donne, Virtual Paul’s Cross Project, and Chalfant 154-8.