Spital Yard

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

South out of Spital Square at the western end, the southern end only being in Bishopsgate Ward Without, the northern portion lying outside the City boundary in the Liberty of Norton Folgate (P.O. Directory).


First mention: P.C. 1732.

In O. and M. "Spital Yard" occupies the site of the present Spital Square.

So called from the Priory and Hospital of St. Mary Spital without Bishopsgate, which formerly stood on the site.

See St. Mary Spital.

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