London City
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The Survey of London
LONDON
CITY
SIR WALTER BESANT
LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1910
With this volume we begin what may be called the second part of the Survey. All that has preceded it has dealt with the history of London as a whole; now we turn to London in its topographical aspect and treat it street by street, with all the historical associations interwoven in a continuous narrative with a running commentary of the aspect of the streets as they were at the end of the nineteenth century, for the book is strictly a Survey of London up to the end of the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Besant himself wrote the greater part of the volume now issued, calling it “The Antiquities of the City,” and it is exclusively confined to the City. For the topographical side of the great work, however, he employed assistants to collect material for him and to help him; for though, as he said, he had been “walking about London for the last thirty years and found something fresh in it every day,” he could not himself collect the mass of detail requisite for a fair presentation of the subject. In the present volume, therefore, embedded in his running commentary, will be found detailed accounts of the City Companies, the City churches and other buildings, which are not by his hand. A word as to the plan on which the volume is made may be helpful. In cases where the City halls are standing, accounts of the Companies they belong to are inserted there in the course of the perambulation; but where the Companies possess no halls, the matter concerning them is relegated to an Appendix. The churches, however, being peculiarly associated with the sites on which they are standing, or stood, are considered to be an integral part of the City associations, and churches, whether vanished or standing, are noted in course of perambulation. A distinction which shows at a glance whether any particular church is still existing or has been demolished is made by the type; for in the case of an existing church the name is set in large black type, as a centre heading, whereas with a vanished church it is given in smaller black type set in line.
Walter Besant
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PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
GROUP I
THE SADDLERS COMPANY
ST. MARY-LE-BOW
THE GROCERS COMPANY
ST. LAWRENCE, JEWRY
SS. ANNE AND AGNES, ALDERSGATE
THE HABERDASHERS COMPANY
THE WAX CHANDLERS COMPANY
THE MERCERS COMPANY
ST. ALBAN, WOOD STREET
THE GOLDSMITHS COMPANY
ST. MARY ALDERMARY
ST. MILDRED, BREAD STREET
ST. AUGUSTINE
GROUP II
ST. STEPHEN, COLEMAN STREET
THE ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS COMPANY
THE GIRDLERS COMPANY
THE COOPERS COMPANY
ST. MARY, ALDERMANBURY
ST. ALPHAGE
THE CURRIERS COMPANY
THE BREWERS COMPANY
THE BRODERERS COMPANY
ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE
ALLHALLOWS, LONDON WALL
THE COACHMAKERS COMPANY
THE COACH AND COACH-HARNESS MAKERS COMPANY
ST. OLAVE, SILVER STREET
PARISH CLERKS
THE BARBERS
GROUP III
ST. PETER, CORNHILL
ST. MICHAEL, CORNHILL
ST. EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR
ALLHALLOWS, LOMBARD STREET
ST. MARY WOOLNOTH
ST. CLEMENT, EASTCHEAP
ST. MARY ABCHURCH
THE SALTERS COMPANY
THE FOUNDERS COMPANY
ST. SWITHIN’S CHURCH
ST. STEPHEN, WALBROOK
ST. MARY WOOLCHURCH HAW
MERCHANT TAYLORS COMPANY
ST. PETER-LE-POER
ST. MARGARET, LOTHBURY
THE DRAPERS COMPANY
THE CARPENTERS COMPANY
GROUP IV
THE IRONMONGERS COMPANY
ST. KATHERINE COLEMAN
THE PEWTERERS COMPANY
ST. KATHERINE CREE
ST. BOTOLPH, ALDGATE
ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT
ST. HELEN, BISHOPSGATE
THE LEATHERSELLERS COMPANY
ST. ETHELBURGA THE VIRGIN
ST. BOTOLPH, BISHOPSGATE
GROUP V
ST. MARTIN, LUDGATE
THE STATIONERS COMPANY
THE APOTHECARIES COMPANY
ST. ANDREW BY THE WARDROBE
ST. NICHOLAS COLE ABBEY
ST. BENET, PAUL’S WHARF
THE PAINTERS OR PAINTER STAINERS COMPANY
ST. JAMES, GARLICKHITHE
THE VINTNERS COMPANY
THE INNHOLDERS COMPANY
ST. MICHAEL ROYAL
THE SKINNERS COMPANY
THE DYERS COMPANY
THE TALLOW CHANDLERS COMPANY
ALLHALLOWS THE LESS
THE CORDWAINERS COMPANY
THE FISHMONGERS COMPANY
ST. MAGNUS, LONDON BRIDGE
ST. LEONARD, EASTCHEAP
ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH
THE WATERMEN
ST. MARGARET PATTENS
ST. MARY-AT-HILL
THE BAKERS COMPANY
ST. DUNSTAN IN THE EAST
THE CLOTHWORKERS COMPANY
ST. OLAVE, HART STREET
ALLHALLOWS BARKING
TOWER OF LONDON
THE JEWELS
THE ARMOURY
ST. PETER AD VINCULA
HOLY TRINITY, MINORIES
GROUP VI
CHRIST’S HOSPITAL
CHRIST CHURCH
ST. SEPULCHRE
THE CUTLERS COMPANY
ST. PAUL’S
ST. BOTOLPH, ALDERSGATE
ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT
ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE LESS
THE BUTCHERS COMPANY
ST. DUNSTAN IN THE WEST
THE TEMPLE
THE ROLLS AND THE RECORD OFFICE
ST. BRIDE
THE ANCIENT SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF LONDON
St. Mary-le-Bow Grammar School
The Grammar School of St. Martin’s-le-Grand
St. Anthony’s Hospital and School
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
ORDER OF PRECEDENCE
ASSOCIATIONS WHICH HAVE DISAPPEARED.
BASKETMAKERS
THE BLACKSMITHS
THE BOWYERS
BRODERERS
THE CARDMAKERS
THE CARMEN
THE CLOCKMAKERS
THE COOKS
THE DISTILLERS
THE FANMAKERS
THE FARRIERS
THE FELT MAKERS
THE FISHERMEN
THE FLETCHERS
FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS
THE FRUITERERS
THE GARDENERS
GLASS SELLERS
THE GLAZIERS
THE GLOVERS
THE GOLD AND SILVER WYRE DRAWERS
THE GUNMAKERS
THE HORNERS
THE JOINERS
THE LORINERS
THE MAKERS OF PLAYING-CARDS
THE MASONS
THE MUSICIANS
THE NEEDLEMAKERS
THE PATTENMAKERS
THE PAVIORS
THE PINMAKERS
THE PLAISTERERS
THE PLUMBERS
THE POULTERS
THE SCRIVENERS
THE SHIPWRIGHTS
THE SPECTACLE MAKERS
THE TIN-PLATE WORKERS
THE TURNERS
THE TYLERS AND BRICKLAYERS
THE UPHOLDERS
THE WEAVERS
THE WHEELWRIGHTS
THE WOOLMEN
MAYORS
SHERIFFS
INDEX
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