Old Watch House, Bishopsgate

Old Watch House, Bishopsgate
   On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard.
   "Ye olde Watch House."
   A tablet affixed to the house records the fact that it was rebuilt 1771 and again 1912. Commemorates the site of the watch or guard house attached to Bishopsgate before its removal in the 18th century.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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