Dowgate

{{Short description|Ward of the City of London}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2014}}

{{infobox UK place

| official_name = Ward of Dowgate

| map_type = Greater London

| static_image_2 = City of London, Ward of Dowgate.svg

| static_image_2_caption = Location within the City

| country = England

| region = London

| london_borough = City of London

| coordinates = {{coord|51.511|-0.089|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = TQ319812

| post_town = LONDON

| postcode_area = EC

| postcode_district = EC4

| dial_code = 020

| constituency_westminster = Cities of London and Westminster}}

Dowgate, also referred to as Downgate and Downegate,[http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DOWN1.htm Dowgate Ward], Map of Early Modern London, last updated 5 May 2022, accessed 5 June 2022 is a small ward in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London, England. The ward is bounded to the east by Swan Lane and Laurence Poutney Lane, to the south by the River Thames, to the west by Cousin Lane and College Hill, and to the north by Cannon Street. It is where the "lost" Walbrook watercourse emptied into the Thames.

A number of City livery companies are quartered in the ward: the Worshipful Company of Dyers, Worshipful Company of Innholders, Worshipful Company of Skinners and Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers. There is one church, St. Michael Paternoster,{{efn|Described by John Betjeman as

A round colonnaded temple with round urns on it, a middle stage with curving corbels, more urns, round turret supporting a vane.

}} where, in addition to its local and congregational causes, the Anglican Mission to Seafarers convenes and fundraises. The ward also contains Cannon Street station, which is on the site of the Steelyard (a mediaeval trading port of the Hanseatic League), and Dowgate Fire Station on Upper Thames Street, the only London Fire Brigade station within the City of London.London Fire Brigade, [https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/community/the-city-of-london/ The City of London], accessed 5 June 2022