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===Medieval===
[[St Etheldreda's Church, London|St Etheldreda's Church]], in gated [[Ely Place]], was originally the chapel of the [[Bishop of Ely]]'s London palace. This ecclesiastical connection allowed the street to remain part of the county of [[Cambridgeshire]] until the mid-1930s. This meant that [[Ye Olde Mitre]], a pub located in a court hidden behind the buildings of the Place and the Garden, was licensed by the Cambridgeshire Magistrates.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/726471/Things-that-go-bump-on-the-map.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/726471/Things-that-go-bump-on-the-map.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Things that go bump on the map|last=Vitaliev|first=Vitali |author-link=Vitali Vitaliev|date=3 January 2003|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|access-date=12 August 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/features/1614.html|title=Secret London: Ye Olde Mitre Tavern|last=Hammond|first=Derek|date=28 June 2006|work=[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]]|access-date=12 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726084958/http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/features/1614.html|archive-date=26 July 2008}}</ref>

St Etheldreda's is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Britain, and one of two extant buildings in London dating back to the era of [[Edward I|Edward{{nbsp}}I]].<ref name="St Etheldreda’s">{{cite web|title=History of the Church|url=http://www.stetheldreda.com/index.php/history-of-st-etheldredas/|website=stetheldreda.com|quote=It is the oldest Catholic church in England and one of only two remaining buildings in London from the reign of Edward I.|access-date=29 September 2017|archive-date=15 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715075343/http://www.stetheldreda.com/index.php/history-of-st-etheldredas/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="KettlerTrimble2001">{{cite book|author1=Sarah Kettler|author2=Carole Trimble|title=The Amateur Historian's Guide to Medieval and Tudor London, 1066–1600|url=https://archive.org/details/amateurhistorian00kett_1|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=Capital Books|isbn=978-1-892123-32-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/amateurhistorian00kett_1/page/103 103]|quote=This is Britain's oldest Roman Catholic church, dating from the 13th century.}}</ref><ref name="Davies1988">{{cite book|author=Andrew Davies|title=Literary London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5ckAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-45708-5|page=112|quote=In 1874 when the church was bought back by the Roman Catholics it was found to be full of 'inconceivable filth, living and dead'. St Etheldreda's is the oldest Catholic church building in Britain.}}</ref>