Friar Street.-South out of Carter Lane at No. 67 to Ireland Yard (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within.

First mention : "Fryers Street" (O. and M. 1677). "Fryar street" (Hatton, 1708).

Called also "Friers Court" (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 194).

Named from the Blackfriars, in which precinct it lay.