![]() ![]() Then Atterbury Street, which contains the new entrance to the Tate, was named for a Dean of Westminster appointed in 1713. (There has been a connection down the centuries between the Abbey and the village of Islip in Oxfordshire, and Dean Buckland died there.) John Islip street runs south towards the Tate Britain. John Islip (1464–1532) was abbot of the monastery of Westminster shortly before Henry VIII’s dissolution. But I will come to him later.īefore we consider the Victorian deans in the new wave of streets christened after the First World War, we should perhaps note briefly some of the other divines name-checked in the streets of the vicinity. I became interested in the topography of central Westminster named after specific deans having noticed several, and then been surprised to find one of them named for the Victorian Dean Farrar whom I recognised from the historical back catalogue of lecturers at the scientific Royal Institution of Great Britain. ![]() Concealed hard by Westminster Abbey there is also Dean’s Yard, named for the deanery there. After Victoria Street ploughed across the cityscape Dean Street, running south outside Westminster Abbey, was subsumed into Great Smith Street. The Abbey is a Royal Peculiar, or church under the direct control of the monarch, and the highest ranking divine of that shrine is the Dean. Not being part of the diocese of the Bishop of London, there is no Bishop to house or commemorate at Westminster Abbey. ![]()
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