St Dunstan Parish Boundary Marker - Fleet Street, City of London, UK - Public Land Survey Marks on Waymarking.com

Most of the many surviving parish boundary markers in the City of London follow a standard format. They tend to be small metal plates affixed to the walls of buildings, bearing the initials of the church parish concerned and the year in which they were placed. This marker is unusual in three ways. It is larger than standard, it has no date and it is set into the pavement rather than a wall. Close inspection however shows that there are four small holes in the plate and there is a suspicion at least that it may at one time have been fixed to a wall, through these holes, and is no longer in its original position.

The parish of St Dunstan’s lies immediately to the east of this point. To the west is the parish of St Clement Danes, although that parish is not marked at this location. The boundary marker is also effectively marking the boundary between the City of London and the City of Westminster.

Type of survey mark: Metal plate. What indicators are near the mark to help people identify where it is located?: Set into the pavement outside Child’s Bank (now a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland) at No. 1 Fleet Street. What property is this mark defining?: Placed to mark the boundary between the parishes of St Dunstan-in-the-West and St Clement Danes.

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Date Logged Log   05/17/2022 Master Mariner visited it