Cross Street

Names

  • Cross Street

Street/Area/District

  • Cross Street

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Descriptions

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Cross str. a considerable street crossing Hatton Garden near the middle, L. 160 yds.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

[Cross Street, Hatton Garden.] Hatton Garden, is a very large Place now, containing several Streets: Viz. Hatton street, Charles street, Cross street, and Kirby street; all which large Tract of Ground was a Garden, and belonged to Hatton House; now pulled down, and built into Houses. Which said Streets are very gracefully built, and well inhabited by Gentry; especially Hatton street, which is spacious, and in a strait Line comes out of Holbourn, and runs Northwards to Hatton Wall. And at the corner of this Street and Cross street, there is a handsome large Chappel, but not yet finished. In Cross street, over against Kirby street, is Hatton Yard; a very large Place, taken up with Stables and Coach Houses; and hath a passage into Vine street.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Cross street, Hatton Garden.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Cross-Street, Hatton-Garden,—intersects it at 43, and is second from Holborn, it extends from Kirby-st. to 33, Leather-lane.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Cross-St., Hatton Garden, is the second turning on the right hand from Holborn; it extends from Kirby-street to Leather-lane.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Cross Street, Hatton Garden, William Whiston, the divine, and friend of Sir Isaac Newton, lived in this street. "January 9, 1712. Lower end of Cross Street, Hatton Garden";—"the same house in which I have heard the famous Mr. Flamsteed once lived."1 He held here, during the years 1715–1717, a weekly assembly for religious worship, according to a liturgy of his own composing. Here, in conjunction with Humphrey Ditton, "wicked Will Whiston" published that New Method of Discovering the Longitude by Signals which is now only remembered by Swift's ludicrous jingle. It was in a chapel attached to the Caledonian Asylum in this street that Edward Irving, in August 1822, took the town by surprise with his powers as a preacher. For some three years his great popularity continued, and during this time each Sunday Hatton Garden and the neighbouring streets were thronged with carriages. In 1829 he removed to the Scotch National Church in Regent Square.


1 Whiston, Memoirs, vol. i. p. 236.