Printing House Square

Names

Printing House Square
Printer's Square
Printing House Yard

Street/Area/District

Printing House Square

Maps & Views

1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Printing House Yard

Descriptions

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

Printing House Square

At the east end of Printing House Lane, Water Lane, Blackfriars (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within. Within the precinct of the Blackfriars.

First mention: Lockie, 1810.

Former names: "Printers Square" (Horwood, 1799). "Printing House Yard" (Rocque, 1746, and Strype).

"The King's Printing House" occupied the site in O. and M., 1677, and hence the name.

"Times Printing House" and Offices here now.

A portion of the Roman Wall was found under the Times' Office in 1849 (Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. V. 155).