White Lyon Court
Names
- White Lyon Court
- White Lion Court
Street/Area/District
- White Lyon Court
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): White Lyon Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): White Lyon Court
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
White Lyon Court
North out of Barbican, in Aldersgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677–Boyle, 1799).
Strype describes it as mean, with decrepid houses ready to fall (ed. 1720, I. iii. 122).
Site now occupied by New Zealand Avenue (q.v.).
Name derived from the sign.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
White Lion Court on the North side [of Barbican]; which is but mean, with decrepid Houses ready to fall.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
White Lion court, Barbican, Aldersgate street. ✽