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ST. PAUL'S PLAYHOUSE: "THE PLAYHOUSE WAS APPARENTLY IN THE ALMONRY, WHERE THE MASTER OF THE CHORISTERS (WHO WAS ALSO THE ALMONER) LIVED ALONG WITH, PRESUMABLY, HIS CHARGES. THE NORTH WALL OF THE ALMONRY WAS AT THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CATHEDRAL NAVE, BETWEEN, ON THE WEST, THE "LESSER" SOUTH DOOR OF THE CATHEDRAL AND, ON THE EAST, THE WEST WALL OF THE CLOISTERS. THE PLAYHOUSE WAS PROBABLY AT THE NORTH END OF THE ALMONRY AND IN THE MIDDLE STOREY, ABOVE ROOMS AT STREET LEVEL AND BELOW OTHERS IN THE ATTIC. (BOTH ITS GREAT RIVALS, THE FIRST AND SECOND BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSES, WERE ALSO IN UPPER STOREYS." PEOPLE GOING TO PLAYS THERE WOULD HAVE PROCEEDED ALONG THE EAST-WEST PUBLIC STREET NOW CALLED S. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, TURNED NORTH INTO THE LANE THAT LED TO THE LESSER SOUTH DOOR, AND AT THE TOP, NEAR THE CATHEDRAL WALL, TURNED EAST INTO THE ALMONRY. THE SITE OF THE PLAYHOUSE IS NOW MOSTLY IN THE NEW CATHEDRAL: THE MIDDLE OF THE NORTH WALL OF THE PLAYHOUSE IS PROBABLY ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SOUTH AISLE OF THE NAVE, SOME 80 FEET ALONG FROM THE TOP OF THE STAIRS AT THE WEST FRONT."

BLACKFRIARS "THE FIRST BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSE . . . CONSISTED, IT SEEMS, MAINLY OF SIX ROOMS IN TWO CONVENT BUILDINGS ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE COMPOUND . . . THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES ACQUIRED THAT BUILDING IN 1632, LONG AFTER THE TIME OF THE PLAYSOUSE, AND, THE BUILDING HAVING BEEN DESTROYED IN THE GREAT FIRE OF 1666, BUILT THE PRESENT APOTHECARIES HALL, BLACK FRIARS LANE, E.C. 4, ON THE SITE."

"THE SECOND BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSE, LIKE THE FIRST, WAS A PRIVATE PLAYHOUSE IN AN ANCIENT BUILDING BELONGING TO THE FORMER CONVENT OF THE DOMINICAN, OR BLACK, FRIARS OF LONDON, SOUTH OF LUDGATE HILL. THE BUILDING OF THE SECOND PLAYHOUSE ADJOINED THAT OF THE FIRST. INDEED, THE SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE AUDITORIUM OF THE SECOND PROBABLY ADJOINED THE SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE FIRST. BOTH PLAYHOUSES WERE IN THE UPPER STOREY OF RECTANGULAR BUILDINGS WHOSE LONGER DIMENSIONS LAY NORTH TO SOUTH . . . THE SECOND PLAYHOUSE WAS IN THE NORTHERN END OF THE SOUTHERN BUILDING, THE FIRST IN THE SOUTHERN END OF THE NORTHERN ONE. IN LONDON AS IT IS NOW, THE SECOND PLAYHOUSE EXTENDED SOUTHWARDS FROM THE SOUTHERN END OF APOTHECARIES HALL (WHICH REPLACES THE BUILDING IN WHICH THE FIRST PLAYHOUSE WAS), ACROSS A STREET CALLED PLAYHOUSE YARD, AND ALONG THE EASTERN SIDE OF BLACKFRIARS LANE, E.C.4."

Source: Wickham, Berry, Ingram, English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660 Cambridge UP 2000, p. 306, 501.

PORTER'S HALL PROPERLY IN THE PRECINCT OF BLACKFRIARS, PORTER'S HALL WAS ALSO CALLED PUDDLE WHARF AND ROSSETER'S BLACKFRIARS. IT ADJOINED (OR NEARLY ADJOINED) ST. ANNE'S CHURCH AND WAS ACROSS THE LANE FROM THE KING'S WARDROBE. IT WAS ON PUDDLE WHARF (WHICH COULD MEAN THE STREET LEADING DOWN TO PUDDLE WHARF, ALSO CALLED ST. ANDREW'S HILL) AND CLEARLY ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE PRECINCT OF BLACKFRIARS.

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