St. Paul's Bakehouse

Names

  • St. Paul's Bakehouse
  • Paul's Backhouse
  • Paul's Bakehouse

Street/Area/District

  • Paul's Chain

Maps & Views

Descriptions

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

St. Paul's Bakehouse

On the west side of Paul's Chain, north of Doctors' Commons, opposite the Brewhouse (S. 370).

First mention: "The capitular bakehouse mentioned in description of houses to be erected in the neighbourhood," 43 Ed. III. (H. MSS. Com. 9th Rep. 50).

Shown in Strype's maps, called "Paul's Backhouse."

Afterwards converted into a good square Court with four handsome large houses (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. iii. 230).

See Paul's Bakehouse Court.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Paul's Bakehouse, Godalmin-Street, Doctors-Commons,—about six doors on the R. from 15, on the S. side, of St. Paul's church-yard.