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© Brian
Moseley, Plymouth Webpage created: April 24, 2021 Webpage updated: April 25, 2021 |
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ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD PLYMOUTH SAINT ANDREW STREET
On Benjamin Donn's map of Plymouth in 1765,
Saint Andrew Street can be seen
Saint Andrew's Church and Saint Andrew Street in the 1890s. Saint Andrew Street, Plymouth, which took its name from the Ancient Parish Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle, the Mother Church of Plymouth, ran from Whimple Street, southwards to Notte Street. Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of fishermen and the cross of Saint Andrew is used in the Plymouth coat-of-arms. Saint Andrew's Day is celebrated on November 30th. The antiquarian Mr R N Worth claims in his "History of Plymouth from the Earliest Period to the Present Time" 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.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". 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. 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, pictured below in 1942, was formerly number 33 Saint Andrew Street. It is a museum and open to the public.
Number 32 Saint Andrew Street, now preserved
as "The Merchant's House", 1942. On the west side of Saint Andrew Street were Messrs Snell's Motor House; Messrs W Mumford Limited head office and Abbey Garage; and Messrs Drake Motors Limited, motor engineers.
Mumford's Abbey Garage. The original Plymouth Branch of the Halifax Building Society was at number 1 Saint Andrew Street, while the Abbey Hotel was north of Higher Lane; Messrs Bigwoods Ice and Cold Storage Company Limited was between Higher and Lower Lanes, and the Swan Public House was on the corner with Palace Street. For the Occupants of Saint Andrew Street in 1812 CLICK HERE. For the Occupants of Saint Andrew Street in 1890 CLICK HERE.
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