Fountain Court

Names

  • Fountain Court
  • Fountain Alley

Street/Area/District

  • Fountain Court

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

Fountain Court

East out of the Minories on the site of the present Colonial Avenue (q.v.). In Portsoken Ward (O.S. 1880).

First mention: P.C. 1732.

Former name: "Fountain Alley" (O. and M. 1677).

(By measurement this Alley would seem to have lain further north.)

Rebuilt towards the end of the 18th century and enlarged probably in 1793, so that in 1799 it seems to have covered the site of the former "London Prentice Yard" (q.v.).

On or adjacent to the site of "The Old Fountain" Inn, taken down in 1793, of which there is an engraving in Smith's Antiquities of London, Plate LXV. Over the fireplace of the dining-room of this old inn was a date within a year of 1480.

Named after the inn.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

Fountain Alley, very mean.