Inscriptions: Great Jewry
The above incription on the Town Hall in St Aldate's reads:
THIS STREET
KNOWN TILL 1300 AS
GREAT JEWRY CONTAINED
MANY HOUSES OF THE JEWS
INCLUDING THE SYNAGOGUE
WHICH LAY TO THE NORTH
OF TOM TOWER
1931
Before 1300, Great Jewry ran from Carfax to Folly Bridge, and many of the houses were owned by Jews, although some of them were let to Christians.
There were also Jewish houses in adjoining Pembroke Street (formerly known as Pennyfarthing Lane) and Brewer Street (formerly Lombard Street). The Town Hall itself is on the site of the house of David of Oxford, a financier, and on his death in 1244 it was presented to the Domus Conversorum, the "home for converted Jews".