Friday Street, London
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Friday Street is a small street in the City of London.
The street is reported to have been named either after a fish market held on Fridays (which was traditionally a day of abstinence from meat),[1] or a corruption of the Old English word Frigdaeges. It originally ran between Cheapside and and was one of the principal thoroughfares of the Bread Street Ward in Mediaeval London.[2][3] It was partially cleared to construct Queen Victoria Street, and following damage in World War II, only the section between Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street remains.[3]
The street once had three churches: St Margaret Moses, St John the Evangelist and St Matthew. All three were destroyed in the Great Fire of London. St Matthew was rebuilt following the fire, but subsequently demolished.[3]
Bracken House sits at the corner of Friday Street and Cannon Street. It was designed by Albert Richardson as the main office and print works of the Financial Times.[3]
References[]
- ^ Sarah Valente Kettler, Carole Trimble (2001). The Amateur Historian's Guide to Medieval and Tudor London, 1066-1600. Capital Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-892-12332-9.
- ^ John Noorthouck, 'Book 2, Ch. 9: Bread Street Ward', in A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark (London, 1773), pp. 558-560. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-london/pp558-560 [accessed 29 December 2019].
- ^ a b c d Weinreb et al. 2008, p. 309.
- Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-405-04924-5.
- Streets in the City of London