# Fann Street

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{{Short description|Street in the City of London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
thumb|View from Aldersgate Street, looking down Fann Street
thumbnail|The immediate vicinity of Fann Street
'''Fann Street''' is a street in the [City of London](/source/City_of_London), England.

It runs west–east, from its junction with [Aldersgate Street](/source/Aldersgate_Street)<ref>'Cripplegate, one of the 26 Wards of the City of London' [Baddesley, J.J](/source/Sir_John_Baddeley%2C_1st_Baronet) p134: London; Blades, East & Blades; 1921</ref> and [Goswell Road](/source/Goswell_Road) in the west, to the junction with [Golden Lane](/source/Golden_Lane%2C_London) in the east.

In its original form of Fann's Alley the street was almost certainly named after a former owner or builder in the seventeenth century, and a likely candidate is Stephen Fann, carpenter, whose 1613 will states that he had property in the Precinct of 'Goswelstrete'.<ref>Anthony Camp, ″On the City's edge: a history of Fann Street, London" (2016) 7-8, 44.</ref> Despite the claim made by the plaque placed by the [Worshipful Company of Fan Makers](/source/Worshipful_Company_of_Fan_Makers) on the Jewin Chapel in this street, the name has no connection with the making of fans.

In 1802, [Robert Thorne](/source/Robert_Thorne_(typographer)) moved his [type foundry](/source/type_foundry) to a former brewery in Fann Street, and renamed it the [Fann Street Foundry](/source/Fann_Street_Foundry). On his death in 1820, the business was bought by [William Thorowgood](/source/William_Thorowgood).<ref name=Macmillan>{{cite book|last1=Macmillan|first1=Neil|title=An A-Z of type designers|date=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=9780300111514|page=171}}<!--|accessdate=10 July 2014--></ref> Thorowgood created the typeface [Grotesque](/source/Grotesque_(typeface)). In 1838, the typographer [Robert Besley](/source/Robert_Besley), the creator of [Clarendon](/source/Clarendon_(typeface)) the first [patent](/source/patent)ed typeface in 1845,  joined the Fann Street Foundry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fann Street Clarendon|url=http://www.moderntypography.com/Typedesign/Classics/FannStreetClarendon/index.html|website=Moderntypography.com|accessdate=10 July 2014}}</ref>

The former [YMCA](/source/YMCA) Building at 2 Fann Street has been renamed Blake Tower and has been redeveloped to create 72 luxury apartments.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome|url=http://fannstreet.co.uk/home.html|website=fannstreet.co.uk|accessdate=10 July 2014}}</ref>

A history of the street and its former inhabitants has been provided by [Anthony Camp](/source/Anthony_Camp) in ''On the City's edge: A History of Fann Street, London'' (2016, {{ISBN|978-0-9503308-3-9}}).

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Category:Streets in the City of London

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