Ave Maria Lane
Names
- Ave Maria Lane
- Ave Maria Lane
- Ave Maria Lane
- Ave maria aly
- Ave Mary Lane
- Avemary Lane
Street/Area/District
- Ave Maria Lane
Maps & Views
- 1553-59 London (Strype, 1720): Ave Mary Lane
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Ave Mary Lane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Ave Mari lane
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Ave Mary Lane
- 1666 London after the fire (Hollar & Leake, 1669?): Ave Mary Lane
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Ave Mary Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Avemary Lane
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Ave Mary Lane
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Ave Mary Lane
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Ave Mary Lane
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Ave Maria Lane
North out of Ludgate Hill at 16 and 18 to Paternoster Row and Amen Corner (P.O. Directory).
In Castle Baynard Ward and Farringdon Ward Within.
First mention: "Ave Mary Lane" (S. 340–1).
First called: "Ave Maria Lane," 1641 (L. and P. Charles I. xviii. 193). "Ave-maria aly," 1506, in "Cocke Lorelles Bote," printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
So called of text writers and bead makers dwelling there (S. 340).
But see suggested derivation under Amen Court.
The earliest mention of this lane is of comparatively late date, and it seems probable that in earlier times it may have formed part of Eldeneslane, Old Dean's Lane (now Warwick Lane) and may have been known by one of these names (q.v.).
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Ave Maria Lane, between Ludgate Hill and Paternoster Row.
Ave-Mary Lane, so called of text-writers and bead-makers, then dwelling there.—Stow, p. 126.
"Ave-maria aly" is mentioned in the curious early poem of Cocke Lorelles Bote, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, circ. 1506. In Queen Anne's time "The Black Boy Coffee-house," in this lane, was the chief place for the sale of books by auction.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Ave-Maria-Lane, Ludgate-street, turns off northward, at No. 29, and is the first street on the right from St. Paul's Church-yard; it is continued to No. 27, Paternoster-row, and northwards by Warwick-lane to No. 10, Newgate-street. It received its name with Paternoster-row, Creed-lane, Amen Corner, &c., as being the district where copies of the prayers, &c., so called, were to be purchased.