Spital Bar

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

A vacant place called the "Spytele Barre" opposite the Hospital of St. Mary Bishopsgate, 1374 (Cal. L. Bk. G. p.329).


Bishopsgate ward extends without the gate from the bars by St. Mary Spittle to Bishopsgate (S. 165).

The bars were removed with the City gates about 1760.

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