Prescot Street

[3] The finds were on the site where the Leonardo Royal Hotel now stands, and formed part of the East London Roman Cemetery.

[10] The Roman Catholic English Martyrs Church, designed by Edward Welby Pugin and built between 1873 and 1876, is at number 30.

[12] It is adjoined to another Victorian building, number 16, once the Whitechapel County Court, built in Italianate style in red brick on the site of the old hospital.

"[16] During World War II, the area was severely damaged during The Blitz[17] (a bomb site can still be seen in Magdalen Passage).

On the south side (at number 21) is the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which moved from its previous location in Belgrave Square to the new building in October 2013.

Prescot Street in 2017
Prescot Street (centre) on John Rocque's Map of London, 1746