Prince's Street

   1) In Blackfriars (Boyle, 1799).

   Not named in the maps and not further identified.

   2) North out of Barbican to Bridgwater Square (P. C. 1732-1885).

   In Strype's maps only just formed and called "Passage to ye Square."

   Name changed to Bridgewater Street (q.v.) in 1885.

   3) On the west side of the Bank of England, south from No. I Bank Buildings, Lothbury, to No. 1 Threadneedle Street (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street, Cheap and Coleman Street Wards.

   First mention: Leake, 1666.

   Sir Nathaniel Herne's house occupied part of the site in 1677.

   The original course of this street as shown in the maps of the 17th and 18th centuries was not straight as now, but zigzag, and it ran first north-west and then turned north-east, so that it entered Lothbury further east than at present.

   Its course was altered for the enlargement and extension of the Bank of England in the early part of the 19th century

   Dodsley, 1761, says it was built after the Fire by Act of Parliament and was called by this name before it was erected.

   Wooden piles have been found under this street, apparently belonging to the ancient embankment of Walbrook, also pottery, etc. (Arch. XXVII. 143, and R. Smith, Illus. p. 141). The soil at a depth of 30 ft. was black, impregnated with animal and vegetable matter, similar to that found under London Wall at Finsbury, but not so deep.