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St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street was a church in Castle Baynard ward of the City of London, England, located on the corner of Old Fish Street and Old Change, [1] on land now covered by post-War development. Recorded since the 12th century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, then rebuilt by the office of Sir ...
Jul 18, 2022 · London’s Alleys: Old Fish Street Hill, EC4. This short rather plain-looking passageway is actually a remnant of a longer alley that can be traced back at least to medieval London, at a time when there was a large fish market next to where the alley’s northern end is today.
St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Wren in 1687 when the parish was combined with that of St Gregory by St Pauls. Then in 1886 disaster struck as a fire in a nearby warehouse broke out and severely damaged the church.
Oct 11, 2017 · Fish Street Hill was a busy street, bustling with shops, with plenty of traffic because it led north from old London Bridge – the City’s only bridge over the Thames. By the 1800s old London Bridge (the one that once had the houses standing on it) was showing its age.
Fish Street (Old), Ward of Queenhithe, is described in 1708 as "a considerable and pleasant street between Bread Street east and Old 'Change west." The eastern portion of Old Fish Street was swept away in forming Queen Victoria Street, and the remainder absorbed in Knight-Rider Street.
Ground plan of St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, also showing position of Knightrider Street (a portion formerly known as Old Fish Street), and Old Change.
The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of the city.
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