St. Dunstan's Churchyard

Names

  • St. Dunstan's Churchyard

Street/Area/District

  • Fleet Street

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from the Grub Street Project, by Allison Muri (2006-present)

St. Dunstan's Churchyard. Along the south side of St. Dunstan in the West, facing Fleet Street. It was built in with stationers' shops, which appear to have been the earliest stationary markets for books in London (George Godwin and John Britton, The Churches of London, 1838).

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

[St. Dunstan's Churchyard.] The churchyard (facing Fleet Street) was built in with stationers' shops; and Smethwick (one of the most celebrated) always described his shop as "in St. Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street, under the Diall." Such is his address on the 1609 edition of Romeo and Juliet, and the 1611 edition of Hamlet. Here, in St. Dunstan's churchyard, Marriot published the first edition of Walton's Angler.

There is newly extant a book of 18d. price, called "The Compleat Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Printed for Richard Marriot, in St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street."—Mercurius Politicus, for May, 1653.

Publications associated with this place

  • Heydon, John. The idea of the lavv charactered from Moses to King Charles. Whereunto is added the idea of government and tyranny. By John Herdon Gent. Philonomos. London : printed for the author, and are to be sold in St. Dunstans-church-yard in Fleet-street, 1660. ESTC No. R210015. Grub Street ID 86225.
  • Hickman, Henry. Plus ultra: or Englands reformation, needing to be reformed. Being an examination of Doctor Heylins History of the reformation of the Church of England. Wherein, by laying together all that is there said by the Dr. about the reformation of the Church, and by many testimonies of Reverend Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury; and by several observations made upon the whole, it doth evidently appear, that the present state of the Church of England is no way to be rested in; but ought to proceed to a farther degree of perfection. Written by way of letter to Dr. Heylin, by H.N. O.I. Oxon. London : printed for the authors, and are to be sold in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1661. ESTC No. R19961. Grub Street ID 77515.