Noble Street
Names
- Noble Street
Street/Area/District
- Noble Street
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Noble Street
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Noble street
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Noble Street
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Noble Street
- 1720 London (Strype): Noble Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Noble Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Noble Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Noble Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Silver Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Noble Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Noble Street
North out of Gresham Street, at No. 17, to Falcon Square (P.O Directory). In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within.
First mention: On a tradesman's token, 1659 (Burn, 140).
Shown in Leake, 1666.
In a deed of 1271 "Seint uastes lane" is described as "vicum qui ducit versus 'Aldridesgate'" (D. and C. St. Paul's, Press A. Box 12, 1128). Perhaps in early times Foster Lane extended further north than at present and included the present Noble Street
It may have been renamed "Noble" Street after an owner or builder.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Noble-St.—is in Falcon-square, the north continuation of Foster-lane.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Noble-Street, Falcon-Square,—the N. continuation of Foster-lane, entering by 148, Cheapside.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Noble Street, Cheapside, from Falcon Square to Gresham Street; "pretty long," says Stow, "and indifferently well inhabited; the end next to Foster Lane being esteemed the best."1 Near the north-east end of this street, over against the City Wall, stood Bacon House, "of old time called Shelly House, as belonging to the Shellies; for Sir Thomas Shelley, Knt., was owner thereof in the Ist of Henry IV.,—but now called Bacon House, because the same was new builded by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal."2 On the east side of Noble Street is the Coach and Harness Makers' Hall. The street is now largely tenanted by silk merchants, Manchester warehousemen, and similar traders.
1 Stow, B. iii. p. 121.
2 Ibid., B. iii. p. 95; Maitland, p. 482.