Throgmorton Street
Names
- Throgmorton Street
- Throkmorton Street
- Throgmorton Street
- Broad Street
- Throckmorton Street
Street/Area/District
- Throgmorton Street
Maps & Views
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Throgmorton Street
- 1720 London (Strype): Throckmorton Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Throgmorton Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Throgmorton Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Throgmorton Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Throgmorton Street
South-west from No. 70 Old Broad Street to 41 Lothbury. In Broad Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: "Throkmorton Street" (S. 1598, p. 137). "Throgmorton Street" (ib. 140). Formerly called "Broad Street" (q.v.). Parish of St. Bartholomew the Little described as in Broad Street, 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIX. Pt. 2, p. 188).
Named after Sir Nicholas Throgmorton.
Roman well found here at the corner of Bartholomew Lane at a depth of 12 ft., also Roman and Gaulish pottery.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Throgmorton Street,—at the N.E. corner of the Bank of England, extending to Broad-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Throgmorton-St., is at the north-east corner of the Bank of England, and extends from Broad-street to the end of Bartholomew-lane.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Throgmorton Street, Lothbury, the north-east corner of the Bank of England, to Broad Street, was so called after Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, who is said to have been poisoned by Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth's favourite. There is a monument to his memory in the Church of St. Catherine Cree. The pious Robert Nelson was living here with his mother towards the end of the 17th century.
August 6, 1694.—I directed my letter to be left for you with Madam Nelson, at her house in Throgmorton Street behind the Old Exchange.—Bishop Bull to Robert Nelson.
Alexander Chalmers, author of the Biographical Dictionary, was living here June 13, 1815. Throgmorton Street is now chiefly inhabited by stockbrokers and jobbers. Observe. Drapers' Hall, on north side, and near to it the Imperial Ottoman Bank (No. 26), a handsome semi-oriental edifice erected in 1871 from the designs of Mr. Burnet, and the adjoining offices, Italian Gothic in style, built in 1870 from the designs of Mr. Chatfeild Clarke. On the south side in New Court is an entrance to the Stock Exchange, and also the back of the new buildings of the Stock Exchange. West of Drapers' Hall is the handsome new thoroughfare called Throgmorton Avenue, carried across the Drapers' Hall Gardens (see Drapers' Hall) to London Wall by Carpenters' Hall.