Carthusian Street

Names

  • Carthusian Street
  • Cathus Street

Street/Area/District

  • Carthusian Street

Maps & Views

Descriptions

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

Carthusian Street

West out of Aldersgate Street, at 129, to 2 Charterhouse Square, the southern side in Aldersgate Ward Without, on the northern boundary of the Ward (P.O. Directory).

The northern side of the street is in the Borough of Finsbury.

Built 1699 (W. Stow, 1722).

So called from the convent of Carthusian monks formerly residing in the Charterhouse.

"Cathus Street" in Strype.