Dean's Court
Names
- Dean's Court
- Deanes Court
- Great Dean's Court
- Little Deans Court
Street/Area/District
- Dean's Court
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Deans Court
- 1720 London (Strype): Deans Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Deans Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Little Deans Court
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Dean's Court
East out of St. Martin le Grand, at No. 50, to George Street, in Aldersgate Ward (Lockie, 1816).
First mention: A court of St. Martin le Grand, called "le Deanes Court," 34 H. VIII. (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Strype says it comprised two courts, "Great Deans Court" and "Little Deans Court" (ed. 1720, I. iii. 121).
So named from the Dean of St. Martin's le Grand.
Site afterwards occupied by the old General Post Office.