BISHOPSGATE
Bishopsgate gets its name from "Bishop's
Gate", which stood opposite Camomile Street, one the eight gates into of walled City
of London. The rich merchants of Tudor and Elizabethan times lived here. Among them were
the mansions of Sir Thomas Gresham, Sir Paul Pindar and Sir John Crosby. Before the time
of Shakespeare plays were performed at the Bull Inn.
Of the three parish churches, St. Ethelburga and St. Helen were
situated inside the City wall and St. Botolph situated outside.
St. Ethelburga's Church
Picture from Joan Renton's postcard collection
Greenwood's Maps 1827:
Bishopsgate part 1 and
surrounding area [366 Kbytes] and
Bishopsgate part 2 and
surrounding area [363 Kbytes].
Church Records:
- St Botolph
Baptisms 1558-1898, Marriages 1558-1958, Burials 1558-1849 : GL
Baptisms 1898- date, Marriages 1958- date : Not deposited
- St Ethelburga
Baptisms 1671-1974, Marriages 1679-1951, Burials 1672-1839 : GL
- St Helen
Baptisms 1575-1981, Marriages 1575-1870, Burials 1575-1853 : GL
Marriages 1870- date : Not deposited
- Independent Meeting House, New Broad St
Baptisms 1727-1837 : PRO
- Parliament Court Chapel (Baptist), Artillery St
Births 1795-1811 : PRO
- Presbyterian Chapel, Hand Alley
Baptisms 1705-1753, 1760-1789 : PRO
- Society of Friends Meeting House, Devonshire House, Houndsditch
Births 1655-1837, Marriages 1666-1837, Burials 1719-1837 : PRO
- All Saints, Skinner Street
All Saints appears to have opened in 1858 as a chapel of ease in 1858 then District
chapelry constituted 1864, united to St Botolph Bishopgate 1869 PR's in GL: baptisms
1858-67, marriages 1864-69. It appears on the Godfrey maps, north of Liverpool
Street Station, for which I suspect it may have been acquired for railway widening.
[Note from John Henley Jul 2001]
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