Paternoster Row

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The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during World War II. In 2003 the area was pedestrianised with Paternoster Square, the modern home of the London Stock Exchange, at the west end, and a paved area around St Pauls' Coop and an entrance to St Pauls tube station at the East, bounded by St Pauls Churchyard, New Change, Cheapside and Payner Alley. The route of Paternoster Row is not demarcated across the open areas, although there is a road sign at the south of the eastern area, perhaps designating the area as Paternoster Row. Between Payner Alley and Queen's Head Passage/Cannon Alley the road is clearly marked as Paternoster Row. The building to the south, Paternoster House has an address in St Pauls Churchyard (the pedestrian way north of the bounds of the churchyard proper), where its south face is. There are no signs on the next segment up to Paternoster Square, nor around the square. The exit from the south-west corner of the square, along - or very close to - the previous route of Paternoster Row, debouching on Ave Maria Lane – Warwick Avenue opposite Amen Corner, is signed as Paternoster Lane.

The street is supposed to have received its name from the fact that, when the monks and clergy of St Paul's Cathedral went in procession chanting the great litany, they would recite the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster being its opening line in Latin) in the litany along this part of the route. The prayers said at these processions may have also given the names to nearby Ave Maria Lane and Amen Corner.E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Another possible etymology is that it was the main place in London where paternoster beads were made. The beads were popular with the laity, as well as illiterate monks and friars at the time, who prayed 50 Pater Noster prayers (Latin for "Our Father") three times a day as a substitute for the 150 psalms recited a day by literate monks.{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=John D. |title=Beads and Prayers: The Rosary in History and Devotion |date=27 August 2002 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-86012-320-0 |page=ix |language=en}}Fr. D Calloway, Champions of the Rosary: The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon, 2016

Houses in St. Paul's Churchyard were damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666, burning down the old St. Paul's Cathedral. When the new St. Paul's Cathedral was erected, booksellers returned after a number of years. At the same time Pissing Alley which linked Paternoster Row to St. Paul's Churchyard was rebuilt and renamed Canon Alley the name it still bears, although it was also referred to as Petty Canons.

A bust of Aldus Manutius, writer and publisher, can be seen above the fascia of number 13.{{Cite news |title=Aldus in the City |date=1940-01-25 |newspaper=The Times |issue=48522 |page=4}} The bust was placed there in 1820 by Bible publisher Samuel Bagster.{{Cite news |title=Aldus in the City |date=1940-01-27 |newspaper=The Times |issue=48524 |page=4}}

It was reported that Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë stayed at the Chapter Coffeehouse on the street when visiting London in 1847. They were in the city to meet their publisher regarding Jane Eyre.{{Cite news |title=News in Brief – Charlotte Bronte in London |date=1916-04-27 |newspaper=The Times |issue=41152 |page=9}}

A fire broke out at number 20 Paternoster Row on 6 February 1890. Occupied by sheet music publisher Fredrick Pitman, the first floor was found to be on fire by a police officer at 21:30. The fire alarm was sounded at St. Martin's-le-Grand and fire crews extinguished the flames in half an hour. The floor was badly damaged, with smoke, heat and water impacting the rest of the building.{{Cite news |title=Fire |date=1890-02-07 |newspaper=The Times |issue=32929 |page=7}}

This blaze was followed later the same year on 5 October by 'an alarming fire'. At 00:30 a fire was discovered at W. Hawtin and Sons, based in numbers 24 and 25. The wholesale stationers' warehouse was badly damaged by the blaze.{{Cite news |title=Paternoster-row, City |date=1890-10-06 |newspaper=The Times |issue=33135 |page=6}}

On 21 November 1894, police raided an alleged gambling club which was based on the first floor of 59 Paternoster Row. The club known both as the 'City Billiard Club' and the 'Junior Gresham Club' had been there barely three weeks at the time of the raid. Forty-five arrests were made, including club owner Albert Cohen.{{Cite news |title=Raid on City "Club" |date=1894-11-22 |newspaper=The Times |issue=34428 |page=11}}

On 4 November 1939, a large-scale civil defence exercise was held in the City of London. One of the simulated seats of fire was in Paternoster Row.{{Cite news |title="Great Fire" Of London |date=1939-11-06 |newspaper=The Times |issue=48455 |page=3}}

Trübner & Co. was one of the publishing companies on Paternoster Row.

The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during the Blitz of World War II, suffering particularly heavy damage in the night raid of 29–30 December 1940, later characterised as the Second Great Fire of London, during which an estimated 5 million books were lost in the fires caused by tens of thousands of incendiary bombs.{{cite web |url=http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/london-blitz-29th-december-1940/ |title=London Blitz – 29th December 1940 | Iconic Photos |website=Iconicphotos.wordpress.com |date=12 November 2010 |access-date=2016-11-19}}

After the raid a letter was written to The Times describing:

{{blockquote|text='...a passage leading through "Simpkins" [which] has a mantle of stone which has survived the melancholy ruins around it. On this stone is the Latin inscription that seems to embody all that we are fighting for :- VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM' [The word of God remains forever].{{Cite news |title=Verbum Domini |date=1941-02-01 |newspaper=The Times |issue=48839 |page=5}}|sign=|source=}}

Another correspondent with the newspaper, Ernest W. Larby, described his experience of 25 years working on Paternoster Row:{{Cite news |title=Sir,-It is with some diffidence that I com- |date=1942-11-17 |newspaper=The Times |issue=49395 |page=5}}

{{Blockquote |text=…had he [Lord Quickswood] worked for 25 years, as I did, in Paternoster Row, he would not have quite so much enthusiasm for those narrow ways into whose buildings the sun never penetrated… What these dirty, narrow ways of the greatest city in the world really stood for from the people's viewpoint are things we had better bury. |sign=Ernest W. Larby |source=}}

The ruins of Paternoster Row were visited by Wendell Willkie in January 1941. He said, "I thought that the burning of Paternoster Row, the street where the books are published, was rather symbolic. They [the Germans] have destroyed the place where the truth is told".{{Cite news |title=Ministers Greet Mr. Willkie |date=1941-01-28 |newspaper=The Times |issue=48835 |page=4}}

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Note: Before about 1762, premises in London had signs rather than numbers.

• {{anchor|Tyger's Head}}The Tyger's Head – Christopher Barker (????), his son Robert Barker (1545–1629)A Dictionary of Printers and Printing.
• {{anchor|Star}}The Star – Henry Denham (1564)
• {{anchor|Brazen Serpent}}The Brazen Serpent (1627–1650) – Robert Dawlman (1627–1635, 1635–1638, died 1659), Luke Fawne (1635–1638, 1639–1641), Samuel Gellibrand (1639–1641, 1641–1650)
• {{anchor|Golden Ball|Ball}}The Golden Ball/Ball (1650–1675) – Samuel Gellibrand (1654, 1655, 1656, 1661, 1667, 1669, 1673) (died 1675), two of his sons Edward Gellibrand (1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1685), John Gellibrand (1679–1685),{{Cite book |last=McConchie |first=Roderick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GC2aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT206 |title=Discovery in Haste: English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 |date=2019-05-20 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=9783110636024 |access-date=2019-08-12}} F.? Gellibrand (1683)
• {{anchor|Gun}}The Gun – F.? Brome (1683)
• {{anchor|Bell}}The Bell – B. Crayle (1683)
• {{anchor|Sun}}The Sun – G. Wells (1683)
• {{anchor|Angel}}The Angel – Moses Pitt (1683)
• {{anchor|Bear}}The Bear – O. Blagrave (1683)
• {{anchor|Rose and Crown}}The Rose and Crown – R. Chiswell (1683)
• {{anchor|Crane}}The Crane – E. Brewster (1683)
• {{anchor|Peacock}}The Peacock – Robert Clavel/Clavell (1683)
• {{anchor|Three Pigeons}}The Three Pigeons – F.? Baker (1683)
• {{anchor|Golden Lion}}The Golden Lyon/Golden Lion – F.? Robinson (1683)
• {{anchor|Red Lion}}The Red Lyon/Red Lion – H. Bonwick (1683)
• {{anchor|Phoenix}}The Phoenix/Phœnix – H. Mortlock (1683), Ed. Giles (1683)
• {{anchor|Three Flower-de-luces}}The Three Flower-de-luces/Three Flower-de-Luces – H. Hatley (1683)
• {{anchor|Bishopshead}}The Bishopshead/Bishops Head/Bishops head – W. Kettilby (1683)
• {{anchor|Princes Arms|Samuel Smith|Benjamin Walford}}The Princes Arms/Prince's Arms (Arms of the Prince of Wales) – Samuel Smith (1683, 1692, 1694, 1695, 1704, 1705), Benjamin Walford (1694, 1695,{{Cite book |last=Payne |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhstAAAAYAAJ |title=A Practical Discourse of Repentance, Rectifying the Mistakes about it, especially such as lead either to Despair or Presumption. Perswading and Directing to the True Practice of it, and Demonstrating the Invalidity of a Death-Bed Repentance. |date=1695 |publisher=Samuel Smith; Benjamin Walford |edition=2nd |location=London |oclc=51617518 |author-link=William Payne (priest) |access-date=2019-06-02 |orig-date=1695}} 1705), printers to the Royal Society
• {{anchor|Globe}}The Globe – F.? Taylor (1683), T. Cooper (1740){{Cite book |last=An Impartial Hand |title=An Essay on the Management of the Present War with Spain |date=1740 |publisher=T. Cooper}}
• {{anchor|Ship|John Taylor|William Taylor}}The Ship (later No. 38–41) – B. Tooke (1683), John Taylor (1710–1719), his son William Taylor (1708,{{Cite book |last=Payne |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nL0HAAAAQAAJ |title=A Practical Discourse of Repentance, Rectifying the Mistakes about it, especially such as lead either to Despair or Presumption. Perswading and Directing to the True Practice of it, and Demonstrating the Invalidity of a Death-Bed Repentance. |date=1708 |publisher=Richard Burrough and John Baker |edition=corrected and reset 2nd |location=London, England |oclc=1086876590 |author-link=William Payne (priest) |access-date=2019-06-02 |orig-date=1693-03-21}} at the Sun and Moon (near the Royal Exchange), Cornhill; William Taylor at the Ship, St. Paul's Church-Yard 1719–1724), subsequently Longmans (see No. 39){{Cite book |title=London Topographical Record |date=1906 |publisher=London Topographical Society |volume=3 |page=159}}
• {{anchor|Black Swan}}The Black Swan – John and Awnsham Churchill{{cite DNB|wstitle=Churchill, Awnsham|volume=10}} – possibly John Taylor (????), later his son William Taylor (????), subsequently Longmans (????) (see No. 39)
• {{anchor|Bible and Crown}} Bible and Crown Charles Rivington c. 1711-42 (succeeded by Rivington (publishers) (qv) and others at St Paul's Churchyard and environs)
• {{anchor|Crown}}The Crown – T. Rickerton (1721)
• {{anchor|Dove}}The Dove – J. Batley (1723){{Cite book |last=Stevens |first=John |url=https://ia902500.us.archive.org/33/items/TheRomanHistoryWithNotesHistoricalGeographicalAndCriticalVol1/BedeTheVenerable-EcclesiasticalHistoryOfTheEnglishNation.pdf |title=The Ecclesiastical History of the English People |year=1723 |location=London |language=en}}
• {{anchor|The Black-Boy}} The Black-Boy – T. Warner (1724){{Cite book|title=A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates | date=1724 |author = Captain Charles Johnson| location=London| publisher= T. Warner| edition = second | page = title page}}

• {{anchor|1}}No. 1 – J. Souter (1817), Jan Van Voorst (1851) (see No. 3)
• {{anchor|2}}No. 2 – Orr and Co. (1851), J. W. Myers (~1800){{Cite book |last1=Glasse |first1=Hannah |last2=Wilson |first2=Maria |author-link=Hannah Glasse |author-link2=Maria Wilson|url=https://archive.org/details/completeconfect00wilsgoog |title=The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a simple and speedy method of understanding the whole ART OF CONFECTIONARY |date=1800 |publisher=West and Hughes |location=London, United Kingdom |quote=[…] Printed by J. W. Myers, No. 2, Paternoster-row, London, for West and Hughes, No. 40, Paternoster-row. […]}}
• {{anchor|3}}No. 3 – Jan Van Voorst (1838){{Cite journal |date=1838 |title=advertisements |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYxUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA846 |journal=The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama |volume=3056 |pages=846}} (see No. 1)
• {{anchor|5}}No. 5 – Groombridge and Sons (c. 1845 to c. 1875)Various editions published during this period, including {{Cite book |last=Morris |first=F. O. |title=A History of British Birds (six volumes). |date=1857 |orig-date=1851}}
• {{anchor|6}}No. 6 Panyer Alley – R. Groombridge (prior to c. 1845)
• {{anchor|7}}No. 7 Oxford University Press Warehouse (1882)W. W. Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English language, 1882, London, OUP
• {{anchor|9}}No. 9 – S. W. Partridge and Co. (1876)Church of England Temperance Tracts, no. 19, 1876
• {{Anchor|10}} No. 10 – W. W. Gardner (1870/1){{Cite book |last=John Erskine Clarke |title=Chatterbox, ed. by J.E. Clarke |date=1871 |pages=title page, 412}}
• {{anchor|11}}No. 11 – W. Brittain (1840){{Cite book |title=The Secret History of the Court of England from the Commencement of 1750 to the Reign of William the Fourth. |date=1840 |publisher=W. Brittain |page=frontispiece}}
• {{anchor|12}}No. 12 – Trubner and Co. (1856){{Cite book |title=The London catalogue of periodicals, newspapers and transactions of various societies with a list of metropolitan printing societies and clubs |date=1856 |publisher=Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans |page=3, of wrapper}}
• {{anchor|13}}No. 13 – Talbot (1908){{Cite book |last=Wall |first=J. Charles |title=Ancient Earthworks |publisher=Talbot |year=1908 |location=London}}
• {{anchor|15}}No. 15 – Samuel Bagster and Sons (1817, 1825, 1851,The British Metropolis in 1851 1870){{Cite journal |date=1870 |title=Just Published |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_notes-and-queries_1851-09-13_4_98 |journal=Notes and Queries |volume=4 |issue=98}} (Bagster and Thomas, the printers were in Bartholomew close as of 1927.The Comprehensive Bible, 1827)
• {{anchor|16}}No. 16 – Alex Hogg (1780){{Cite book |title=The New London Spy |date=1781 |publisher=Alex Hogg}}
• {{anchor|17}}No. 17 – Thomas Kelly (1840){{Cite book |title=Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinet Making |date=1840-07-01 |publisher=Thomas Kelly}}
• {{anchor|20|21}}No. 20 & 21 – F. Pitman, later F. Pitman Hart and Co. Ltd. (1904)The World's Paper Trade Review, 1904-05-13, p. 38
• No. 21 – J. Parsons (1792){{Cite book |title=Plain truth: or, an impartial account of the proceedings at Paris during the last nine months. Containing, Among other interesting Anecdotes, a particular statement of the memorable tenth of August, and third of September. By an eye witness |date=1792}}
• {{anchor|22}}No. 22 – The Electrical Review (1876–1897){{Cite magazine |date=1897-06-25 |title=front page |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_electrical-review_1897-06-25_40_1022 |magazine=The Electrical Review |language=en |location=London |volume=40 |issue=1022}}
• {{anchor|23}}No. 23 – Piper, Stephenson, and Spence (1857){{Cite news |date=1857-05-23 |title=advertisements |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Crg_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA336 |newspaper=The Examiner |publisher=John Hunt |page=336}}
• {{anchor|24}}No. 24 – George Wightman (1831){{Cite book |last1=Fox |first1=William |title=Memoir of W. Fox, Esq., founder of the Sunday-School Society: comprising the history of the origin … of that … institution, with correspondence … between W. Fox, Esq. and R. Raikes, etc. |last2=Raikes, the Younger |first2=Robert |date=1831 |publisher=George Wightman |editor-last=Ivimey |editor-first=Joseph |editor-link=Joseph Ivimey |author-link=William Fox (deacon) |author-link2=Robert Raikes, the Younger}} (See also: Sunday School Society)
• {{anchor|25}}No. 25 – George Robinson, from 1763 to 1801, with John Roberts, 1763 to 1776Henry Richard Tedder, "Robinson, George", in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 49
• {{anchor|27}}No. 27 Ivy Lane – Walton and Maberly (also at 28 Upper Gower Street) (1837{{Cite book |last=De Morgan |first=Augustus |url=https://archive.org/details/elementsalgebra01morggoog |title=Elements of algebra, preliminary to the differential calculus |date=1837 |page=[https://archive.org/details/elementsalgebra01morggoog/page/n302 255] |author-link=Augustus De Morgan}}-1857), Hodder & Stoughton (from 1868-06-16){{Cite book |last=Attenborough |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/livingmemoryhodd0000atte |title=A Living Memory |date=1975 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |isbn=9780340203132 |author-link=John Attenborough |url-access=registration}}
• {{anchor|31}}No. 31 – Sheed & Ward (1926)
• {{anchor|33}}No. 33 – Hamilton and Co. (1851 1854{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4KGrF1jiBEC|title=How to Choose a Wife|author=H. W. H****|date=1854|publisher=Hamilton and Co.|location=London}})
• {{anchor|34}}No. 34 – Hurst and Blackett. (1930s)
• {{anchor|37}}No. 37 – James Duncan (1825–1838), Blackwood and Sons (1851)
• {{anchor|38|39}}No. 39 (see The Ship) – Longman, Hust, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green (1825),{{Cite book |last=Feltham |first=John |title=The picture of London, enlarged and improved |date=1825 |publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green |edition=23rd |page=iv |author-link=John Feltham}} later Longman and Co. (1851), later Longmans, Green, and Co. (1866, 1899, 1902){{Cite book |last=Yonge |first=Charles Duke |title=Gradus Ad Parnassum |date=1902 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London, New York and Bombay |page=title |author-link=Charles Duke Yonge}}
• {{anchor|40|41}}No. 40 – West and Hughes (~1800)
• {{anchor|47}}No. 47 – Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy (1817, 1818), Baldwin and Craddock,{{Cite book |last=Wheatley |first=Henry Benjamin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KPxH48qnZwC&pg=PA37 |title=London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-02808-0 |pages=37–39 |chapter=Paternoster Row |author-link=Henry Benjamin Wheatley |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KPxH48qnZwC&pg=PA37 |orig-date=1891}} later Chambers (1891)
• {{anchor|56}}No. 56 – The Religious Tract Society (1851)
• {{anchor|60}}No. 60 – The Sunday School Union (1851) later Trübner & Co (1872){{Cite book |last=Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |title=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |date=January 1872 |publisher=Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |pages=1}}
• {{anchor|62}}No. 62 – Eliot Stock (1876,{{Cite book|title=The Pilgrim's Progress: As Originally Published by John Bunyan : Being a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition| author = John Bunyan |publisher = Elliot Stock| date=1876}} 1893,{{Cite book |last=Wheatley |first=Henry Benjamin |url=https://archive.org/stream/literaryblunders00wheauoft#page/n5/mode/2up |title=Literary Blunders – A Chapter in the History of Human Error |date=1893 |publisher=Eliot Stock |series=The Book Lover's Library |author-link=Henry Benjamin Wheatley |access-date=2019-06-03}} 1910Richmondshire Churches, H. B. McCall, Eliot Stock, London, 1910)
• {{anchor|65}}No. 65 – Houlston and Stoneman

• C. Davis (1740){{Cite book |last=Grey |first=Zachary |title=A Vindication of the Government, Doctrine, and Worship, of the Church of England: Established in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth |date=1740 |publisher=C. Davis |location=Paternoster Row, London |author-link=Zachary Grey}}
• Hawes, Clarke and Collins (1771){{Cite book |last=Stevens |first=George Alexander |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcIUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA257 |title=The Choice Spirit's Chaplet: Or, a Poesy from Parnassus. Being a Select Collection of Songs, from the Most Approved Authors; Many of Them Written and the Whole Compiled by George Alexander Stevens, Esq |date=1771 |publisher=John Dunn, sold by Hawes, Clarke, and Collins |location=London |page=Front page |author-link=George Alexander Stevens}}
• Oxford University Press – Bible warehouse destroyed by fire in 1822, rebuilt c. 1880
• Sampson Low (after 1887)
• H. Woodfall & Co.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} G. Woodfall, printer, 1809.{{Cite book|title=Hall's Chronicle: Containing the History of England, During the Reign of Henry the Fourth, and the Succeeding Monarchs, to the End of the Reign of Henry the Eighth, in which are Particularly Described the Manners and Customs of Those Periods| author = Edward Hall| editor = Henry Ellis | publisher = J. Johnson| date=1809}}
• Marshall Brothers Ltd., Keswick House, Paternoster Row, London
• Thomas Nelson{{Cite web |last=Gittings |first=B.M. |date=2012 |title=Thomas Bonnar: 1810 – 1873 |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1466.html |website=The Gazetteer for Scotland}} (See also: Thomas Bonnar, the Younger)
• Mr Collins (printer of moral and religious tracts) (1817)[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/03/petition-of-thomas-dugood Petition of Thomas Dugood] 3 February 1817
• Sherwood, Neely, and Jones (1817)
• R. Fenner (1817)
• Kent and Co. (1859)
• Jackson & Walford
• Hutchinson & Co.
• Ralph Smith Kirby (1802){{Cite book |last=Tomes |first=Charles |url=http://archive.org/details/pollfreemencity00unkngoog |title=The poll of the freemen of the city of Oxford for two representatives in parliament, 6th [-] 9th ... |date=1802 |publisher=Slatter and Munday |pages=28 |language=English}}
• J. Osborn, 1716{{Cite book|title=Pamela| author=Samuel Richardson | edition=Second |volume=1|page=title page | date=1716 | publisher= C. Rivington and J. Osborn}}

• No. 34 – Boys Brigade London HQ (was Hurst and Blackett in 1930s)
• {{Anchor|59}}No. 59 – Junior Gresham Club, opened and destroyed by fire in 1894
• {{Anchor|60}}No. 60 – Friendly Female Society, "for indigent widows and single women of good character, entirely under the management of ladies."

• The Siege of Paternoster Row was an anonymous 1826 booklet in verse, attacking the reliability of bankers.{{Cite book |title=The siege of Paternoster Row: a moral satire, unfolding in heroic metre, certain secrets concerning literary trading … funds … the exchequer … and … other subjects |author-first=Trimmer |author-last=Master |date=1826-08-12 |publisher=G. Richards |ol = 20352160M}}
• The Paternoster Gang are a trio of Victorian detectives aligned with the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who, so named because they are based in Paternoster Row.
• In the episode "Young England" of the 2016 television series Victoria, a stalker of Queen Victoria indicates that he lives on Paternoster Row. (Coincidentally, the actress playing Victoria in the series, Jenna Coleman, had appeared in several episodes of Doctor Who that featured the above-mentioned Paternoster Gang.)
• The novel, The Last Bookshop in London, makes numerous references to Paternoster Row, and it mentions the destruction of the street during World War II.

• History of London
• Doctors' Commons
• Fleet Street
• Longmans{{Cite book |publisher=David Bogue |location=London |author-first=Herbert |author-last=Fry |title=London in 1880 |date=1880 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/londonin1880illu00fryh#page/208/mode/2up |chapter=Paternoster Row}}
• Paul's walk
• St. Paul's Cross
• Religious Tract Society

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|editor-first1=William Edwin |editor-last1=Hamilton |editor-link1=William Edwin Hamilton |editor-first2=Charles Jasper |editor-last2=Joly |editor-link2=Charles Jasper Joly |date=1899 |orig-date=1866-01-01 |edition=2 |volume=I |publisher=Longmans, Green & Co. |location=London, UK |url=https://archive.org/details/117770258_001 |access-date=2019-08-03}}

{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44Yq6UplAbAC |title=An Essay on Typography |series=Art and Design Series |author-first1=Eric |author-last1=Gill |author-first2=Christopher |author-last2=Skelton |edition=illustrated and revised |publisher=David R. Godine Publisher |date=1988 |isbn=0-87923950-6 }}

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• {{Cite book |publisher=Sherwood, Neely, and Jones |location=London |title=London: being a complete guide to the British capital |author-first=John |author-last=Wallis |author-link=John Wallis (publisher) |edition=4th |date=1814 |oclc=35294736 |chapter=Paternoster Row |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/londonbeingacom00wallgoog#page/n292/mode/2up}}
• {{cite book |title=A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 |author-last=Dawlman |author-first=Robert |year=1907 |publisher=Bibliographical Society |url=https://archive.org/stream/adictionarybook00plomgoog/adictionarybook00plomgoog_djvu.txt}} [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_Booksellers_and_Printers_who_Were_at_Work_in_England,_Scotland_and_Ireland_from_1641_to_1667/Dawlman_(Robert) Dawlman (Robert)]
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• {{cite book |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Longman,_Thomas_(DNB00) |chapter=Longman, Thomas

|author-first=Francis |author-last=Espinasse |title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900 |volume=34}}

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