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Vintry (Ward of). One of the 26 wards of London.

“Vintry Ward, so called of Vintners and of The Vintry, a part of the bank of the river Thames, where the merchants of Burdeaux [sic] craned their wines out of lighters and other vessels, and there landed and made sale of them.” – Stow, p. 89.

Boundaries. – N., the street called St. Thomas Apostle’s; S., The Thames; E., Dowgate; W., Queenhithe. Stow enumerates four churches and four Halls of Companies as situated in this ward:- St. Michael’s, called Paternoster-Church-in-the-Royal; St. Thomas the Apostle, (destroyed in to Fire, and not rebuilt); St. Martin’s-in-the-Vintry, (destroyed in the Fire, and not rebuilt); St. James’s, Garlick-hithe; Vintners’ Hall; Cutlers’ Hall; Glaziers’ Hall; Parish Clerks’ Hall. [See all there names.] Southwark Bridge abuts from the centre of this ward.

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