Fenchurch Street
Fenchurch Street, originally Fennieabout is a street in the City of London. The road is part of an east - west route through the city. It includes the east by Aldgate on the edge of the City, and in the west on Lombard Street.
Archaeological finds indicate that at the position of the Fenchurch Street already in pre -Roman times, a traffic route has been found. In the 21st century, the Fenchurch Street as the entire eastern City of offices and administrative buildings is marked. Particularly striking are the large complexes of Plantation Place, 20 Fenchurch Street. After the street named, but not located directly at it's Fenchurch Street station.
History
The meaning of the name is no longer safe to comprehend today. Either the road that was formerly usually called Fennieabout, named after the fern (English Fen ), which grew on the banks of the river Langbourn at this point, or after the grain market (from Latin feanum for cereals), in the street occurred.
Archaeological finds in place of today's roads date from Celtic times. From the time of the Roman London there were three each subsequent road surfaces, as well as the remains of several Roman warehouses and workshops. The houses and shops on the Fenchurch Street were the first visitors to London got to see who went through the Aldgate in the city. Since the gate was one of the most frequented, the shops and pubs on the Fenchurch Street had a corresponding thereto public revenue.
In May 1554, Elizabeth I is in Fenchurch Street, have taken in the King's Head her first meal after Maria dismissed them as the Tower of London. It is said to have acted as pork peas. Also there is The Mitre, a favorite of Samuel Pepys - and appreciated in detail in his diaries - no more. It burned down in the Great Fire of London.
At times Pepys heard of half of the land to the Fenchurch Street, the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, which moreover had some other reason, in London, and so was one of the richest of the Livery Companies at that time.
Buildings
Among the buildings in Fenchurch Street, which no longer exist today, including several churches, including St Gabriel Fenchurch, St Benet Gracechurch, St Dionis Back Church and St Katharine Coleman. St Gabriel Fenchurch, which burned down in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt, it was the namesake for the whole street policy. The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers had from 1587 to 1920 their Livery Hall in the street in 117 Fenchurch Street.
- 20 Fenchurch Street, still under construction, one of the tallest buildings in the City. Replaces a skyscraper from the second half of the 20th century.
- Plantation Place, built in 2004 and successor of the Plantation House, fills almost the entire block between Fenchurch Street, Great Tower Street, Mincing Lane and Rood Lane from.
- Fountain House, 30 Fenchurch Street, was in 1957 with 14 floors, the first skyscraper to be built in the City of London. In the design of it is based on New York's Lever House.
- East India Arms, 67 Fenchurch Street, Pub in the early 19th century, making it one of the oldest existing building on Fenchurch Street.
- Lloyd 's Register of Shipping, 71 Fenchurch Street is a mixture of Neo-Baroque from 1900 and a modern extension of the 21st century.
- The Elephant, 119 Fenchurch Street, solidly built of stone, one of the few buildings that survived the Great Fire of London. Nevertheless, the house was demolished in 1826 and rebuilt in a similar design again.
- Fen Court, a small park, which consists of remnants of the churchyards of St Gabriel and St Mary. In it there are three burial sites dating from the 18th century.