Cartwright Street

Names

  • Cartwright Street
  • Churchyard Alley
  • Cartridge Street
  • Church head Street
  • Churchhead Street

Street/Area/District

  • Cartwright Street

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Descriptions

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

Cartwright Street

South out of Royal Mint Street, at 29, to Upper East Smithfield, at 31 (P.O. Directory).

Formerly (in O.S. 1880) extended only to Cartwright Square and Crown Court, but when these streets were removed for the erection of the industrial dwellings by the Metropolitan Industrial Dwellings' Co., Ltd., in 1884, Cartwright Street was prolonged into Upper East Smithfield.

Former names: "Churchyard Alley" (17 Chas. II. Midd. Sess. Rolls, III. 371–Rocque, 1746). "Cartridge street in rosemary lane," called also "Church-head street" (New Review, 1728, and W. Stow, 1722), and the two names seem to have been in use interchangeably until the end of the 18th century.

The name "Churchyard Alley" is interesting, as suggesting the proximity of the street in early days to the church of the convent of St. Mary Graces, the abbey of Eastminster, which stood on the site now occupied by the Royal Mint.

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

Cartwright-Street, Rosemary-Lane,—at 32, near ⅕ of a mile on the R. from the Minories, Tower-hill, leading to Cartwright-square and Upper East-Smithfield.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Cartwright-St., Rosemary-lane, is nearly a quarter of a mile on the right hand from the Minories. It leads to Cartwright-square and Upper East Smithfield.