Great Prescott Street
Names
- Great Prescott Street
- Prescott Street
- Peasecod Street
- Prescod Street
- Prescot Street
- Pescod Street
Street/Area/District
- Great Prescott Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Prescott Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Pescod Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Prescott Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Prescot Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Great Prescott Street
East from 95 Mansell Street to 104 Leman Street (P.O. Directory). In Goodman's Fields.
Former names: "Prescott street" (Hatton, 1708, and Strype's maps, 1720). "Peasecod street" (Strype, 1720, I. ii. 28). "Prescod street" (P.C. 1732). "Prescot street" (Rocque, 1746; Boyle, 1799). "Gt. Prescott street" (Horwood, 1799).
It seems to have been one of the first streets in which the houses were distinguished by numbers, instead of signs, as Hatton in his description of the street in 1708 mentions this as worthy of note at that time, the staircases in the Inns of Court and Chancery being also likewise distinguished.
Named after the builder.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Prescot street, a spacious and regular Built str. on the S. side of the Tenter Ground in Goodmans fields, betn Hooper square E. and Mansel str. end W. L. 330 Yds, and from T. L. NEly, 450 Yds. Instead of Signs, the Houses here are distinguished by Numbers, as the Stair Cases in the Inns of Court and Chancery.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
| [Prescot Street.] But now Goodman's Fields are no longer Fields and Gardens, but Buildings, consisting of many fair Streets, as Maunsel Street, Pescod or Prescot Street, Leman Street, &c. and Tenters for Clothworkers, and a large Passage for Carts and Horses out of Whitechapel into Wellclose; besides many other Lanes.] | Goodmans Fields turned into Streets. J. S. |
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Prescot street, Goodman's fields. †
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Prescot-Street (Great), Goodman's Fields—is op. Goodman's Yard, entering by 60, in the Minories, it extends from the S. end of Mansel-st. to Lemon-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Prescott-St., Great, Goodman's-fields, extends from the south end of Mansel-street to Lemon-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Prescot Street, Goodman's Fields, between Leman Street and Mansell Street, is divided into "Great" and "Little." In Little Prescot Street is one of the oldest dissenting meeting-houses in London.
Prescot Street, a spacious and regular built street on the south side of the Tenter Ground in Goodman's Fields. Instead of Signs the Houses here are distinguished by numbers, as the staircases in the Inns of Court and Chancery.—Hatton, 1708, p. 65.
Sir Cloudesley Shovel, the old rough admiral of Queen Anne's reign, resided in this street before he removed to Soho Square; and here (August 8, 1758) the first Magdalen Hospital was opened with eight inmates, all that the Institution could then shelter. [See Goodman's Fields.] In Great Prescot Street are the Whitechapel County Court, a Roman Catholic Church, and the convent of St. Mary.