Basinghall Street

It lies chiefly in the ward of Bassishaw (originally the street and the courts and passages leading off from it) with the southern end in Cheap and Coleman Street wards.

The street and ward are named after the Bassing family, who built a hall house here in the 13th century and who were given certain privileges by the King.

The latter is accessed from the street's north-western spur and Aldermanbury Square and footway by Brewers Hall, or longer north-eastern spur which is named Bassinghall Avenue which hosts the verdant Girdlers' Company mansion and then a few metres of Coleman Street.

Despite this westward change, the meandering street has kept the same length: of about 270 metres.

St Michael Bassishaw was a church on the street demolished in 1900.