Historical Dictionary of London

QUEEN'S COLLEDGE PASSAGE SQUARE, OR QUEEN'S SQUARE PASSAGE

South out of Leadenhall Street and east to Lime Street. In Lime Street Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
A passage into Leadenhall Market. The southern portion called "Pav'd Alley," or "Little Queen Street" (q.v.) in Rocque, 1746, the northern portion occupied by the Green Market.
Strype says the site was originally occupied by a large house, the habitation of a merchant, and.anciently supposed to belong to the Kings and Queens (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 89).
Part of the site is now occupied by Leadenhall Place (q.v.).
SeeArtirce, The King's.