I’ve had a number of questions about
property boundary markers recently.
Most of those I’ve seen in and
around the City of London have been parish boundary markers. The most common types of these are brass
plaques affixed to buildings, typically a little above head height - here are some examples:
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| St Katherine Cree |
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| St Lawrence Jewry |
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| St Mary Le Strand |
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| St Stephen Coleman Street |
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| St Clement Danes |
(The anchor on the St Clement
Danes plaque, the Katharine Wheel on the St Katharine Cree one, and the
gridiron on the St Lawrence Jewry one, allude to the respective methods by which the nominate saints were martyred;
the encircled cockerel on the St Stephen Coleman Street plaque, alludes to the “La Cokke on the Hoop” brewery that stood on
Coleman Street in the fifteenth century).
At least one that I’m familiar with, though, is in the form of a carved inscription
more or less at street level
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| Christ Church (and St Sepulchre) |
And another is reminiscent of a milestone.
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| St Clement Danes a St Dunstan in the West |
Brass shields bearing
coats-of-arms also mark the boundaries of the properties of the livery
companies.
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| Armorers' and Brasiers' Company |
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