Bishopsgate Street Without
Names
- Bishopsgate Street Without
- Bishopsgate Street
Street/Area/District
- Bishopsgate Street Without
Maps & Views
- 1553-59 London (Strype, 1720): Bishopsgate Street Without
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Bishopsgate Street
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Busshoppes gate strete
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Bushuppes gate Strete
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - British Library): Bishopsgate Street Without
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - Folger): Bishopsgate Street Without
- 1658 London (Newcourt & Faithorne): Bishopsgate Street without
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Bishopsgate Street Without
- 1720 London (Strype): Bishopsgate Street Without
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Bishops Gate Street without
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Bishopsgate Street without
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Bishopsgate Street Without
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Bishopsgate street, is divided into two Parts: 1. Bishopsgate str. within … 2. Bishipsgate-str. without (the Gate) is a very spacious and publick Str. betn the Gate S. and Norton Falgate N. L. NW 570 Yds, and the Ward so called from the Street.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Bishopsgate Street Without. … This is also a very broad and spacious Street, but not so well built and inhabited as that within the Wall. It runs Northwards a great length, but no further in the Freedom then unto the Bars.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Bishopsgate Street Without. [See preceding article [Bishopsgate Street].] Commencing with the west side at Wormwood Street, we come directly to the Church of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and Alderman's Walk; Liverpool Street and White Hart Court, so called from the White Hart Inn, of which there is an interesting view by J.T. Smith. No. 169, the house of Sir Paul Pindar (d. 1650), an eminent English merchant, distinguished for his love of architecture and the magnificent sums he gave towards the restoration of old St. Paul's Cathedral. The house, or part of it, is a public-house called "Sir Paul Pindar's Head"; some of the ceilings were in plaster of the Cinque Cento period, but the best part of the house was the front towards the street, which still exists. The building was demolished in 1871, and rebuilt or "restored" in the following years. There is a monument to Sir Paul in the parish church of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. The Venetian Embassy at Sir Paul Pindar's house, 1617–1618.—Quarterly Review, vol. cii. p. 408. Sun Street, an important thoroughfare, was stopped up by the Great Eastern Railway Company a few years ago. Lamb Alley, in it Alleyn the actor's (now called Underwood's) Almshouses (rebuilt 1731; restored 1867). East side, commencing at Camomile Street.—Houndsditch; Devonshire House and the Friends' Meeting House, the great central place of assembly of the Society of Friends; Devonshire Street, and Devonshire Square.
I, Lodowick Muggleton, was bom in Bishopsgate Street [Without], near the Earl of Devonshire's House, at the corner house called Walnut Tree Yard. My father's name was John Muggleton, he was a smith by trade, that is a farrier or horse doctor, he was in great respect with the Postmaster in King James's time..... When I was grown to 15 or 16 years of age, I was put apprentice to one John Quick, a tailor; he made livery gowns, and all sorts of gowns for men; he made gowns for several Aldermen and Liverymen of their Company in London, and he lived in this Walnut Tree Yard.—Acts of the Witnesses, chap. iii. § 5, p. 6.
The Catherine Wheel Inn, of old a great coaching house, Artillery Lane. [See Artillery Ground.]
1 Spedding, vol. i. p. 34.
2 The engraving of the church of St. Ethelburga in West and Tom's Churches of London (410, 1736), contains a most interesting view of Bishopsgate Street Within. The old houses in the engraving are quaint and striking in the extreme.