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{{Short description|Square in the City of London, England}} {{Infobox street | name = Paternoster Square | marker_image = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | alternate_name = | image = Paternoster Square.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_map = | caption = Paternoster Square, redeveloped in 2003, is near [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. | map_type = London | map_size = | map_caption = | map_alt = | other_name = | former_names = | part_of = | namesake = Paternoster Row | type = Urban development | owner = [[Mitsubishi Estate]] | maint = | length = | length_m = | length_ft = | length_km = | length_mi = | length_ref = | length_notes = | width = | area = | addresses = | location = | arrondissement = | quarter = | postal_code = | metro = | coordinates = {{coord|51|30|53|N|0|5|58|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title, inline}} | direction_a = | terminus_a = | direction_b = | terminus_b = | junction = | north = | east = | south = | west = | main_contractor = | cost = | references = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date = | completion_date = | inauguration_date = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | demolition_date = | designer = | known_for = Location of the [[London Stock Exchange]] | status = | website = [http://www.paternosterlondon.co.uk/ www.paternosterlondon.co.uk] }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use British English|date=April 2024}} [[File:Paternoster Square 2007.jpg|thumb|Paternoster Square]] '''Paternoster Square''' is a former historic square, renamed from Newgate Market c. 1872,<ref name=history_2_s11>{{cite web | url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/parrot-alley-paternosterchurch-street#h2-s11 | title=Parrot Alley, Aldgate high Street - Paternosterchurch Street | British History Online }}</ref> and now a post-war urban redevelopment, owned by the [[Mitsubishi Estate]], next to [[St Paul's Cathedral]] in the [[City of London]]. The area was previously named [[Paternoster Row]], after the street of the same name, once centre of the London [[publishing]] trade and was devastated by aerial bombardment in [[The Blitz]] during [[World War II]]. It is now the location of the [[London Stock Exchange]] which relocated there from [[Threadneedle Street]] in 2004. It is also the location of investment banks such as [[Goldman Sachs]], [[Merrill (company)|Merrill]] and [[Nomura Securities]], and of fund manager [[Fidelity Investments]]. The square itself, i.e. the plaza, is [[privately owned public space]]. In 2004, [[Christopher Wren]]'s 1669 [[Temple Bar Gate]] was re-erected here as an entrance way to the plaza. The square is near the top of a modest rise known as [[Ludgate Hill]], formerly one of the two highest points in the City of London. It is characterised by its pedestrianisation and colonnades.
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