# Dowgate

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dowgate
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dowgate.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowgate
> Source revision: 1355756671
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Ward of the City of London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2014}}
{{infobox UK place
| official_name            = Ward of Dowgate
| map_type                 = Greater London
| mapframe                 = yes
| mapframe-custom          = {{maplink|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Dowgate (2013)}}|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=245|frame-height=245}}
| mapframe-caption         = Dowgate ward boundaries since 2013
| country                  = England
| region                   = London
| london_borough           = City of London
| coordinates              = {{coord|51.511|-0.089|display=inline,title}}
| os_grid_reference        = TQ319812
| post_town                = LONDON
| postcode_area            = EC
| postcode_district        = EC4
| dial_code                = 020
| constituency_westminster = [Cities of London and Westminster](/source/Cities_of_London_and_Westminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency))}}

'''Dowgate''', also referred to as ''Downgate'' and ''Downegate'',<ref>[http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DOWN1.htm Dowgate Ward], Map of Early Modern London, last updated 5 May 2022, accessed 5 June 2022</ref> is a small [ward](/source/Wards_of_the_City_of_London) in the [City of London](/source/City_of_London), the historic and financial centre of London, England. The ward is bounded to the east by Swan Lane and Laurence Poutney Lane, to the south by the [River Thames](/source/River_Thames), to the west by Cousin Lane and College Hill, and to the north by [Cannon Street](/source/Cannon_Street). It is where the "lost" [Walbrook](/source/River_Walbrook) watercourse emptied into the Thames.

A number of City [livery companies](/source/Livery_Company) are quartered in the ward: the [Worshipful Company of Dyers](/source/Worshipful_Company_of_Dyers), [Worshipful Company of Innholders](/source/Worshipful_Company_of_Innholders), [Worshipful Company of Skinners](/source/Worshipful_Company_of_Skinners) and [Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers](/source/Worshipful_Company_of_Tallow_Chandlers). There is one church, [St. Michael Paternoster](/source/St_Michael_Paternoster_Royal),{{efn|Described by [John Betjeman](/source/John_Betjeman) as<blockquote>A round colonnaded temple with round urns on it, a middle stage with curving corbels, more urns, round turret supporting a vane.</blockquote>}} where, in addition to its local and congregational causes, the [Anglican Mission to Seafarers](/source/The_Mission_to_Seafarers) convenes and fundraises. The ward also contains [Cannon Street station](/source/Cannon_Street_station), which is on the site of the [Steelyard](/source/Steelyard) (a mediaeval trading port of the [Hanseatic League](/source/Hanseatic_League)), and Dowgate Fire Station on [Upper Thames Street](/source/Thames_Street%2C_London), the only [London Fire Brigade](/source/London_Fire_Brigade) station within the City of London.<ref>London Fire Brigade, [https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/community/the-city-of-london/ The City of London], accessed 5 June 2022</ref>

==Politics==
Dowgate is one of [the 25 ward](/source/Wards_of_the_United_Kingdom)s of the [City of London](/source/City_of_London), each electing an [alderman](/source/alderman) to the [Court of Aldermen](/source/Court_of_Aldermen) and commoners (the City equivalent of a [councillor](/source/councillor)) to the [Court of Common Council](/source/Court_of_Common_Council) of the [City of London Corporation](/source/City_of_London_Corporation). Only electors who are [Freemen of the City of London](/source/Freedom_of_the_City) are eligible to stand.
thumb|Cannon Street station, on the River Thames

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
Betjeman, J, ''The City of London Churches'', Andover, Pitkin, 1972 {{ISBN|0-85372-112-2}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110704191319/http://217.154.230.195/NR/rdonlyres/0855035C-3085-4CB6-A192-0F985090A976/0/dowgate.jpg Corporation of London] – present day map of Dowgate ward
*[http://www.vintryanddowgate.org.uk/ Vintry and Dowgate Wards Club]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071013133343/http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/SaferCityWards/YourCityWard/Wards/dowgate.htm City of London police]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110811082906/http://alisongowman.org.uk/ Alison Gowman, Alderman of Dowgate Ward]
* [http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DOWN1.htm Map of Early Modern London: Dowgate Ward] – Historical Map and Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's London (Scholarly)

{{City of London wards}}
{{City of London gates}}

Category:Wards of the City of London

{{London-ward-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dowgate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowgate) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowgate?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.