From BEVIS MARKS SYNAGOGUE to OLD SPITALFIELDS MARKET and on to SHOREDITCH London’s “First Theatreland”
The “Can of Ham”
Cutler St.
Former East India Company Cutler St. Warehouses, now DEVONSHIRE SQ.
King Edgar Statue
https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/king-edgar
Devonshire Sq., the real square
GEORGIAN HOUSES
COOPERS’ HALL
Site of FISHER’S FOLLY, later on DEVONSHIRE HOUSE and GARDENS (did the “real” W.S. wrote its works here?)
New Street
Cock Hill
Catherine Wheel Alley
Middlesex St.
Welcome to Spitalfields, and to the East End!
harps://exploringeastlondon.co.uk/eel/Spitalfields/Spitalfields.htm
Site of the JEWISH BOARD OF GUARDIANS (The Board of Guardians and Trustees for the Relief of the Jewish Poor)
Widegate
SANDYS ROW SYNAGOGUE
Artillery Passage
https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/artillery-gardens-in-spitalfields?memorial_id=8991
Former LEVY BAKERS
Arrow Mark (think arrows, longbows, crossbows)
18th c. SHOP-FRONTS
Former PROVIDENCE ROW SHELTER
Dorset St.: Jack the Ripper murder
Nearby
Tenter Ground (street)
Former TRACEY EMIN’s artist studio
Brune St.
Spitalfields in East London gets its name and origins from the Hospital and Priory of St Mary, founded in 1197 by Walter Brune, a wealthy London citizen and former sheriff, and his wife, Roesia Brune
Former JEWISH SOUP KITCHEN
OLD SPITALFIELDS MARKET
Remains of the CHARNEL HOUSE
https://flickeringlamps.com/2020/01/26/a-medieval-charnel-house-below-the-streets-of-spitalfields/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spitalfields-charnel-house
https://www.spab.org.uk/news/how-internet-and-big-pile-rubbish-saved-spitalfields-charnel-house
https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/the-monastery-before-the-market.htm
https://pastinthepresent.net/2013/07/21/special-access-touring-the-charnel-house-at-st-mary-spital/
Spital Yard
SUSANNA ANNESLEY, mother of JOHN WESLEY, birthplace
Spital Square
Former CENTRAL FOUNDATION GIRLS SCHOOL
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065058?section=official-list-entry
Folgate Street
DENNIS SEVERS’ HOUSE
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/14/how-paddy-handscombe-met-dennis-severs/https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/14/how-paddy-handscombe-met-dennis-severs/
Elder St
MARK GERTLER
Georgian terraces
Norton Folgate (street)
WORSHIP ST.
KID MARLOWE
WORKSHOPS by PHILIP WEBB
Curtain Road
Curtain Close, a nearby field that derived its name from the adjacent curtain wall of Holywell Priory.
Site of the CURTAIN THEATRE
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/jun/06/shakespeare-curtain-theatre-shoreditch-east-lonfon
King John’s Court
Over centuries, locals and historians mistakenly attributed the surviving ruins (of the Priory) and surrounding buildings to King John, a common trend in English local folklore where the Plantagenet king's name was often attached to medieval sites
New Inn Yard
It takes its name from an actual coaching inn—the "New Inn"—that was built there in the 1700s.
Statue of William Shakespeare and stones with quotations of his works
Site of the THEATRE (on the site of the PRIORY OF HOLYWELL)
Rivington St.
RIVINGTON PLACE
Street Art
Charlotte Rd.
Old St.
Rufus St.
Hoxton Sq.
Site of Hoxton Fields
https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/ben-jonsons-murder-charge/
A duel: Jonson vs. Spencer
No. 1 JAMES PARKINSON lived here
ST.MONICA, an AUGUSTUS PUGIN church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Monica%27s_Church,_Hoxton
Nearby
Hoxton Street Market
Site of LORD MONTEAGLE RESIDENCE
The Gunpowder Plot was foiled on October 26, 1605, when an anonymous warning letter was sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle. Monteagle showed the letter to authorities, leading to a search of Parliament and the arrest of Guy Fawkes
MUSEUM OF THE HOME
Coronet St.
Former POWER STATION, now the NATIONAL CENTRE for CIRCUS ARTS
Hoxton Market (square)
Former MISSION
Artwork
Pitfield St.
Nearby
Former Public Library
Eateries
Old St.
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