Coleman Street Ward , Corporation of London

The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council.

One of the twenty-six wards of the City of London, adjoining Broad Street Ward on the east and south, Bassishaw Ward on the west and Cheap Ward on the south. The ward contained two City parish churches: St Stephen Coleman Street and St Olave Jewry.