ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes an area of the city where cultic sites devoted to St. Dunstan existed in their highest concentration. The devotions of the goldsmiths defined the area for London’s veneration of St. Dunstan as Westcheap, and the evidence from the parish churches located there demonstrates how this was so. The evidence demonstrates the promotion of the image and cult of St. Dunstan by leading members of the Goldsmiths’ Company in a certain part of London over the span of centuries. The requisite material for their creation, for example, is contained in the 1392 inventory of a London goldsmith named Adam Ledyard. Like St. Dunstan, the goldsmiths exercised a wide range of duties and obligations, and, of course, they possessed the courage to move into corridors of power. St. Dunstan, a malleable and potent symbol in London’s spiritual landscape, led the way.
