Church Street today stretches down from the Quay to Wellington Road, running the full length of the old town, but it wasn't always that way.

To start with, what we know as Church Street wasn't always called Church Street, variously being called Middle Street and High Street and originally running only as far as the Church.

Church Street has always had many fine houses as well as shops and businesses. In medieval times merchants mixed commercial and residential use so the family ate and slept next to warehousing or retail space and the old buildings have been periodically repurposed to provide for the needs of a busy seaport.

Church Street was extended out into the estuary when the new Quay was built in the 1850s but you can locate the rough position of the original medieval quay by looking for the old houses at the top of Church Street.

In Victorian times Church Street was a bustling thoroughfare with the section from Market Street to the Church bedecked with the awnings of shops of every kind and busy with shoppers and sailors waiting for their ship to sail.

The imposing St. Nicholas Church was completely rebuilt in 1822 after the old 12th century church had become dilapidated. The old church stood out further into the road than the new one and the southern end of Church Street was previously known as Hanover Square and St. Ellens (also Ellyns or Helens) Street before that.

• 2 and 3 Church Street
• 14, 15 and 16 Church Street
• 22 and 22A Church Street (formerly the Dukes Head)
• 26 Church Street
• 31 Church Street (Sam Pepys, formerly the Rose & Crown)
• 34 and 35 Church Street
• 36 and 37 Church Street
• 57 Church Street (the Crown Post)
• 66 Church Street
• 67 Church Street
• Guildhall
  • Guildhall Gaol
• Three Cups
• White Horse