Bride Lane
Names
- Bride Lane
- Bridelane
- Briddeslane
- St. Brideslane
- Saint Brides lane
- St. Brides Lane
- Seint brideslane
Street/Area/District
- Bride Lane
Maps & Views
- 1553-59 London (Strype, 1720): Bride Lane
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): Bride Lane
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - British Library): Bride Lane
- 1593 London (Norden, 1653 - Folger): Bride Lane
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): Bride Lane
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Bride Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Bride Lane
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Bride Lane
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Bride Lane
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Bride Lane
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Bride Lane
South out of Fleet Street at No. 97 and east to New Bridge Street, on the east side of St Bride's Church (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: "Bridelane," 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 557).
Other forms: "Briddeslane," 1374 (Cal. Close Rolls. Ed. III. 1374–7, p. 47). "Seint brideslane," 1379 (ib. II. 209). "Saint Brides lane," 30 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 112).
Named after St. Bride's Church, unto which there is a passage up stone steps (Strype, L. 1720, I. iii. 279).
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Bride-Lane, Fleet-street, turns off at 98, the first turning on the left from Farringdon-street, and leads into Bridge-street.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
St. Bride's-Lane, Fleet-Street,—at 98, the first on the L. from Fleet-market, leading to 10, Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Bride Lane, St. Bride's.
Bride Lane cometh out of Fleet Street by St. Bridget's Churchyard, which, with a turning passage by Bridewell and the Ditch Side, falleth down to Woodmongers' Wharfs, by the Thames. This lane is of note for the many hatters there inhabiting.—Strype, B. iii. p. 279.
Here, at No. 15 on the east side, is Cogers' Hall. [See that title.] The first meetings of the Madrigal Society (established in 1741) were held at a public house in this lane called The Twelve Bells.