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St John Street, London

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Historic street in Clerkenwell, Islington, north London, England

St John Street is a historic street located inClerkenwell,Islington, northLondon, England.^[1]^[2]

The street runs fromSmithfield Market and Charterhouse Street in the south to the junction ofCity Road andPentonville Road (nearUpper Street) in the north, close to theAngel tube station. It is the first section of the original route of theGreat North Road.

In 1511, theKnights Hospitaller founded ahermitage on the corner of St John Street andGoswell Road.^[3]

TheRed Bull Theatre was located on the street between 1604 and 1666, when it was destroyed in theGreat Fire of London.^[4]James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714–1799) lived at 13 St John Street.^[5] He held "learned suppers" at his house, with guests includingJames Boswell,Robert Burns andSamuel Johnson. Nowadays there are many office buildings, restaurants, and bars in the street.

^"VIII, St John Street".Survey of London. Vol. 46, South and East Clerkenwell. London:London County Council. 2008. pp. 203–221. Retrieved20 September 2022.
^"No. 37, St John Street, Division I".Tallis's London Street Views.John Tallis. 1838. Retrieved20 September 2022.
^Richardson, John (2000).The annals of London : a year-by-year record of a thousand years of history. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press.ISBN 978-0-520-22795-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^Griffith, Eva (2013). "The Red Bull playhouse, St John Street".A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–28.ISBN 9781107041882.
^Grant, James (1880–1887).Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh. Edinburgh.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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