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Queenhithe (Ward of). One of the 26 wards of London; so called from the old part of London of the same name. General Boundaries. – N., Old Fish-street and Trinity-lane; S., The Thames; E., Bull-Wharf-lane; W., Paul’s Wharf, part of St. Peter’s-hill, and the upper end of Lambert-hill. Stow enumerates seven parish churches in this ward:-1. Church of the Holy Trinity in Trinity-lane, (now the Lutheran church); 2. St. Nicholas Cold Abbey, in Old Fish-street; 3. St. Nicholas Olave, Bread-street-hill, (destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt); 4. St. Mary de Monte Alto, or Mounthaunt, in Old Fish-street-hill, (destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt); 5. St. Michael’s, Queenhithe; 6. St. Mary Summerset, in Thames-street, facing Broken-wharf; 7. St. Peter’s, Paul’s Wharf, (destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt); and two Halls of Companies: - 1. Painters-Stainers’ Hall; 2. Blacksmiths’ Hall. The principal street in the ward is part of Upper Thames-street.

Source: A Handbook for London, Past and Present. Peter Cunningham. Published by John Murray 1849.