Swallow Street

[2] Richard Baxter, a Puritan church leader, preached from rooms hired in Swallow Street between April and November 1676.

[4] Thomas Tenison, a future Archbishop of Canterbury, is recorded to have established a chapel of ease in Swallow Street in the late 17th century, during the 1680-1691 period of his incumbency of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and perhaps in response to the huge rise in the population of the parish, from 19,000 in 1660 to 69,000 in 1685.

[2] The lease was bought in 1884[10] by Charles Voysey, a Church of England cleric who had been deprived of his living for the unorthodoxy of his popular printed sermons.

In 1885 he created a Theistic Church, which he maintained until his death in 1912, after which it split into two sects, one retaining the original name, the other the "Free Religious Movement".

[13] John Keyse Sherwin, a notable engraver, is said to have died whilst staying at the 'Hog in the Pound' alehouse in Swallow Street in 1790.

[14] Al Burnett ran the Stork Club in Swallow Street in the 1950s, where guests included Harold Macmillan, John Profumo, Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, King Hussein of Jordan, and Jean Simmons.

[15] The remaining stub of Swallow Street houses several dining places, including the seafood restaurant Fishworks.