The Standard in Fleet Street
- The Standard in Fleet Street
Opposite the south end of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 110, 394).
First mention: " The same yere (viz. 17 H. VI.) was the newe cunduyt in Fletstrete begonnen to make" (Chron. of Lond. 1189-1483, p.124).
Stow says that the water was conveyed to Fleet street from Teybourne by Sir Wm. Eastfield, mayor 1438 (S. 18), and the Standard was finished by his Executors, 1471 (p.17). The inhabitants added a cistern in 1478 (ib.).
Rebuilt 1582 (ib. 395).
Removed before 1720 (Strype, ed. 1720, 1.28).
A Dictionary of London.
Henry A Harben.
1918.
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