(St.) Paul's Bakehouse

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

On the west side of Paul's Chain, north of Doctors' Commons, opposite the Brewhouse (S. 370).


First mention: "The capitular bakehouse mentioned in description of houses to be erected in the neighbourhood," 43 Ed. III. (H. MSS. Com. 9th Rep. 50).

Shown in Strype's maps, called "Paul's Backhouse."

Afterwards converted into a good square Court with four handsome large houses (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. iii. 230).

See Paul's Bakehouse Court.

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