{"title":"Abchurch Lane","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-54-ec3-king-william-gracechurch-lombard-streets-1951-1969-map-p-9-001116","title":"Goad London 54—EC3—King William, Gracechurch \u0026 Lombard Streets 1951 (1969) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 54 [Lombard Street, King William Street, Gracechurch Street and St Clement Eastcheap]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 54, covers Lombard Street and King William Street (EC3), the City's banking quarter, and it reads like a roll-call of vanished banks. Westminster Bank is marked as under construction in August 1969, and before the building was finished the bank had become National Westminster Bank, trading from 1 January 1970. Standard Bank, which had absorbed the Bank of West Africa in 1965, merged into Standard Chartered in November 1969. Guardian Assurance became Guardian Royal Exchange in 1968 and part of AXA in 1999, while the Royal Bank of Scotland still trades under its name. Of the two Grade I churches that survive, Hawksmoor's St Mary Woolnoth of 1716–27 has Bank station beneath it, and Wren's St Clement near Eastcheap of 1683–87 stands on Clement's Lane. Goad's plans were produced to rate fire risk and kept current with pasted overlays recording changed occupiers, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The August 1969 note marking Westminster Bank under construction is the latest dated correction. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in September 1951, with a 1951 copyright date, and it belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Gracechurch Street, Abchurch Lane and Nicholas Lane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371711222107,"sku":"P-9-001116","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001116a_b0f19874-f77a-47a8-8330-3cb306b0bb2a.jpg?v=1792149011"},{"product_id":"goad-london-14-ec4-mansion-house-walbrook-king-william-street-1935-1967-map-p-9-001184","title":"Goad London 14—EC4—Mansion House—Walbrook—King William Street 1935 (1967) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 14 [Mansion House, King William Street, Cannon Street and Walbrook]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 14, covers Mansion House and King William Street (EC4). Here George Dance's Mansion House and Egyptian Hall of 1739–52 remain the Lord Mayor's residence. Wren's domed St Stephen Walbrook is where Chad Varah founded the Samaritans in 1953, and St Mary Abchurch kept its Grinling Gibbons reredos through the Blitz. The Rothschild bank has held New Court on St Swithin's Lane since 1809, rebuilding it in 1962 and again in 2011. The Bank Station booking halls and pedestrian subways shown on the sheet were remade by the upgrade completed in 2023. The sheet also names Barclays Bank, Chetwynd House and the churchyards. The plan was made to assess property and fire risk, and it was kept current with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. Its latest dated correction, from December 1967, is a vacancy note on the west side of St Swithin's Lane, just north of Salters Hall Court. The sheet was reissued in November 1935, with a 1949 copyright date, and the key plans acquired with the group were corrected as late as October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Mansion House Street, Lombard Street, Walbrook, Sherborne Lane, Abchurch Lane, Cannon Street and Nicholas Lane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371753984347,"sku":"P-9-001184","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001184a_b7b9d5e2-e740-4da8-9254-6f1a1a195140.jpg?v=1792149183"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/abchurch-lane.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}