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ROADS AND
STREETS
SAINT ANDREW
STREET
History of
Saint Andrew Street, Plymouth
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Worth claims that the earliest record
of the Street appeared in a deed of 1386 but he did not transcribe
it and the deed has not survived. [1]
It would appear that Saint Andrew Street
never suffered any large-scale redevelopment. For more
detailed information about the more piece-meal alterations to
individual tenements the reader is directed to Graham J Fairclough's
book "Plymouth Excavations: St Andrews Street 1976" [2].
The last four properties at the
top, northern, end of the Street were numbers 1 to 4 Abbey Place.
That name is attributed to what Fairclough calls 'the common
Plymouth practice in the eighteenth century of calling any surviving
ancient building an abbey, or some other variety of religious
institution' and refers to the Prysten House. [2] |
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Saint Andrew Street (it was
never officially Saint Andrew's Street) has been ruined by the construction of
the Magistrate's Court across the middle of it. Today only the top
part, by the side of Saint
Andrew's Church, and the bottom, with the Merchant's House, remain.
The
Merchant's House was formerly number 33 Saint Andrew Street. It is a
museum and open to the public.
Some Views of
Saint Andrew Street, Plymouth
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Occupants of Saint Andrew
Street, Plymouth
Sources:
[1] Worth,
R N, "History of
Plymouth from the Earliest Period to the Present Time" published in 1890 (second
edition) by William Brendon & Son, Plymouth.
[2]
Fairclough, Graham J, "Plymouth Excavations: St Andrews Street, 1976", Plymouth
City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, 1979, ISBN 0-904788-03-2.
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