Editing Moorgate (section)

==Moorgate Street and locality==
[[File:MoorHouse.jpg|thumb|[[Moor House]]]]
[[File:City Point building.jpg|thumb|[[CityPoint]]]]
The area around the former gate, Moorgate Street and Moorgate station is referred to informally as the ''Moorgate'' area. This locale roughly approximates to the [[Coleman Street Ward]] of the [[City of London]].

The contemporary street of Moorgate runs north from Princes Street and [[Lothbury]] at the back of the [[Bank of England]], across the road named London Wall and the location of the old gate, and then continues north. After leaving the [[City of London]] in the direction of the [[London Borough of Islington]], the street is known as [[Finsbury Pavement]] (which at one time was known as Moor Fields Pavement) and then City Road. The street was constructed around 1846 as one of the new approaches to [[London Bridge]]. While the street was formally known as "Moorgate Street", the street part of the name eventually fell out of use.

The [[Chartered Accountants' Hall]], on Moorgate Place, is the home of the [[Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales]].

The [[Guildhall, London|Guildhall]] is connected to [[Moorgate station]] via Bassishaw Highwalk. The Guildhall is the home of the [[City of London Corporation]] and the centre of City government since the [[Middle Ages]]. Adjacent and internally connected to the Guildhall is the [[Guildhall Art Gallery]], which houses the art collection of the City of London. It occupies a stone building in a semi-[[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style which was completed in 1999 to replace an earlier building destroyed in 1941.

The [[Moorfields]] were an extensive area of open land, partly in the City of London, partly in the [[Finsbury|Manor of Finsbury]]. The Lower Moorfields was home to the [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (also known as Bedlam, Europe's oldest [[psychiatric hospital]]) from 1676 to 1815.

[[File:Rocque e1 MoorgateCrop.jpg|thumb|Rocque e1 MoorgateCrop]]
The Lower Moorfields was developed in 1817, with the building of [[Finsbury Circus]]. Finsbury Circus includes a number of classical buildings surrounding an oval-shaped [[circus]]. The gardens in the centre of the circus occupy a {{convert|5,000|sqm|acre|adj=on}} plot enclosed by railings, and include the lawn of the City of London Bowls Club.

Moorgate is also the birthplace of [[John Keats]], one of the principal [[poetry|poets]] in the [[England|English]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] movement.  Keats was born in 1795 in the Swan and Hoop Inn at 199 Moorgate, where his father was an [[Hostler|ostler]]. The pub is now called "The John Keats at The Globe", having previously been known as "The Moorgate Coffee House", "The Moorgate" and "The John Keats at Moorgate", only a few yards from Moorgate station.

A new commercial development on Moorgate, known as [[Moor House]], opened in 2005. The building is located at the corner of Moorgate and London Wall, and was designed by [[Foster and Partners]]. The building has {{cvt|28,000|m2}} of office space in 19 storeys, and is built in the location of a smaller office building built in the 1960s known as Moor House. A 36 m shaft under the building incorporates part of [[Crossrail]]'s new station and ticket hall serving Liverpool Street.

During the 1940s-60s, HM Customs and Excise investigation staff were based at Moorgate Hall, 153 Moorgate.

There is a campus of the [[London Metropolitan University]], formerly a polytechnic, and part of the [[London Guildhall University]], on Moorgate. The campus houses its business school, a [[library]], and other administrative facilities.

A number of large buildings are being planned or already built in the neighbouring streets. These include a 43-storey, 140 m residential skyscraper at Milton Court ([[The Heron]]), that is taller than [[CityPoint]], and a 90 m office tower at Ropemaker Place is also being developed by [[British Land]], with construction already underway.