Coleman Street Ward

Coleman Street Ward

One of the twenty-six wards of the City, adjoining Broad Street Ward east and south, Bassishaw Ward west, and Cheap Ward south, extending north to the City boundary.

Earliest mention: "Warda de Colemannestte," 3 Ed. I. (Rot. Hund. I. 411).

Also called "Ward of Robert de Meldeburn" (ib.). See Haconis (Warda).

Named after the street of Coleman Street, which intersects the ward north and south (S. 278).

Churches in the ward: St. Stephen; St. Olave, Old Jewry; part of St. Margaret Lothbury.

Interesting localities and buildings: Old Jewry; Moorfields; Bank of England. See Wards.

Coleman-street Ward is bounded on the north by Cripplegate Ward, the south part of Finsbury and Bishopsgate, Broad-street and Cheap Wards; on the south by Cheap Ward; and on the west by Bassishaw Ward. It extends from the church in Lothbury to Ironmonger-lane, and from Moorgate to Grocers'-hall-gardens.

The principal streets in this ward are Coleman-street, the northern end of the Old Jewry, Lothbury from Coleman street to St. Margaret's church on the north side, and on the south to about twenty-seven feet beyond Princes-street; the north side of Cateaton-street, from Basinghall-street to Coleman-street, and the south side from Ironmonger-lane. The most remarkable buildings are, the parish churches of St. Stephen, Coleman-street, St. Margaret, Lothbury, and St. Olave Jewry, Founders'-hall, the Armourers' and Braziers'-hall, and part of the hall of the Mercers' Company in Fenchurch-place, Old Jewry, where the Excise Office formerly stood.— [See those several places and buildings.

This ward is governed by an alderman, Sir John Perring, Bart., a deputy, and nine other common councilmen, and other ward officers.

Coleman Street (Ward of). One of the twenty-six wards of London, and so called from the street of that name. It extends from Tokenhouse Yard to Basinghall Street, and from Princes Street and Lothbury to Finsbury Circus. Coleman Street, Lothbury, Moorgate Street, and Finsbury Circus, originally formed the "Lower Walks of Moorfields." Stow enumerates three churches in this ward:—St. Olave Upwell, in Old Jewry; St. Margaret, Lothbury; and St. Stephen, Coleman Street. These three churches were rebuilt after the Great Fire.