Great Winchester Street
Names
- Great Winchester Street
- Winchester Street
Street/Area/District
- Great Winchester Street
Maps & Views
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Winchester Street
- 1720 London (Strype): Winchester Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Winchester Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Winchester Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Winchester Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Great Winchester Street
West out of Old Broad Street at No. 53 and north to No. 73 London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: O.S. 1848–51.
Former name: "Winchester Street" (O. and M. 1677–Elmes, 1831).
So named from the Marquis of Winchester, who as Wm. Poulet, Lord St. John, received the grant of a large part of the house and precincts of the Augustine Friars from Henry VIII. in 1539 and pulling down the Priory buildings erected a large house on the site (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. Pt. 1 p. 588), which was called Powlet House and afterwards Winchester House. The gardens of the house were built on and made into a fair street called Winchester Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. 111).
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Winchester-Street, Old Broad-Street,—at 54, nearly op. the Excise-office, leading to London-wall.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Winchester-St.— is in Old Broad-street, nearly opposite the Excise Office, and derives its name from being the site of the ancient mansion of the Earls of Winchester, built by Sir William Pawlet, Marquess of Winchester, in the reign of Edward VI.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Winchester Street, City, Broad Street to London Wall, was so called after Paulet or Winchester House. [See Winchester House.]
John Archer, the author of Every Man his own Physician, 1673, lived at the "Golden Ball, Winchester Street, near Broad Street." In this work he makes the number of the senses six. Edmund Halley, the astronomer, was the son of a soap-boiler in this street, but was born at his father's country house at Haggerstone. The earliest of his published observations were made, July 25, 1675, on an eclipse of the moon, from the house in Winchester Street. Richard Gough, the antiquary, in the obituary notice which he himself selected for insertion in the Gentleman's Magazine, is stated to have been born in 1735 "in a large house in Winchester Street, London, on the site of the Monastery of Austin Friars." The houses, including some large recent blocks of many-storied "Buildings," are now mostly occupied as offices and chambers by merchants, solicitors, commercial and mining companies, and the like. In Great Winchester Street is Pinners' Hall; in Little Winchester Street was the Greek Church, with an entrance in London Wall, pulled down and removed to Bayswater.