[1] St Mary le Port Church was probably built in Saxon times, and was subsequently enlarged and rebuilt to reach its peak of development in the 15th century.

[3] Writing in the 1920s, Charles Wells described Maryleport St as a place where: ...in the old time all the houses overhung so far that it used to be said opposite neighbours could shake hands out of the window.

B. Priestley when he visited in 1933: What is especially admirable about Bristol is that it is both old and alive, and not one of your museum pieces, living on tourists and the sale of bogus antiques.

[6] Post-war reconstruction plans for a new Civic Centre – consisting of an art gallery, museum, hotel and exhibition centre, to be built in the area between St Peter's Church and High Street – came to nothing, and the sites on either side of Mary le Port Street were leased to the Bank of England and the Norwich Union Insurance Company,[7] whose now-derelict buildings still occupy the sites.

[12] Developer MEPC stated that they intended to create "A new memorable and distinctive place that reinstates lost streets and routes that existed before the Second World War".