Amen Corner
Names
- Amen Corner
- Amen Lane
- Amen Court
Street/Area/District
- Amen Corner
Maps & Views
- 1666 London after the fire (Hollar & Leake, 1669?): Amen Corner
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Amen Corner
- 1720 London (Strype): Amen Corner
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Amen Corner
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Amen Corner
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Stationers Court
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Amen Corner
West out of Paternoster Row at No. 36 to Amen Court (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within.
First mention: (O. and M. 1677).
Former name: "Amen lane" (S. 315).
The college of Physicians was in the lane before the Fire, but was burnt down, and a Canon's house erected in its place (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 194).
Formerly comprised what is now known as Amen Court, containing the Canon's houses, etc.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Amen-Corner, Ave-Maria-Lane,—the first on the L. from 29, Ludgate-st. leading to Stationers-alley.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Amen-Corner, Ave-Maria-lane, is the first turning on the left up Ave-Maria-lane from Ludgate-street, and leads to Stationers'-alley, and the residentiaries' houses of St. Paul's Cathedral.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Amen Corner, Ave Maria Lane, Paternoster Row.
At the end of Pater-Noster Row is Ave-Mary Lane, so called upon the like occasion of text-writers and bead-makers then dwelling there; and at the end of that lane is likewise Creede Lane, lately so called, but sometimes Spurrier Row, of spurriers dwelling there; and Amen Lane is added thereunto betwixt the south end of Warwick Lane and the north end of Ave-Mary Lane.—Stow, p. 127.
At No. 4 Amen Corner is the entrance to Amen Court, where are the dwellings of the Canons residentiary of St. Paul's.
I have taken possession of my preferment. The house is in Amen Corner, an awkward name on a card, and an awkward annunciation to the coachman on leaving a fashionable mansion.—Sydney Smith to the Countess of Morley, Bristol, 1831.