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Cornhill| Street in the City of London, England, running from the Royal Exchange to Leadenhall Street. It contains the churches of St Michael and St Peter, both built by Christopher Wren, as well as many banks and insurance offices. |
| The Royal Exchange, situated between Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, was originally built by Sir Thomas Gresham between 1566 and 1571 as a centre for the meetings of merchants and bankers. It was destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt between 1667 and 1669; it was again destroyed by fire in 1838, and rebuilt between 1842 and 1844. |
| A Roman basilica used to stand at the eastern end of Cornhill, partly on the site now occupied by Leadenhall Market. A general market appears to have existed here in the 14th century. |
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1652
coffee house
Darke, Harold
Eliot, George
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes
Henley, William Ernest
Ipswich
Langland, William
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London
London: history
Payn, James
Procter, Adelaide Ann
Ruskin, John
Smith, George Murray
Tudor and Restoration London
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| In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel. Hurrying from the spot, he entered Cornhill, as the lower part of Washington Street was then called. All this time, the roll of the drum had been approaching through Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst into the street. |