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Founded in
The Abbey of St. Mary Graces is a chapel built in around
All Hallows, London Wall is a church built east of
Bishopsgate, near or on the City Wall. The church is visible on the Agas map
northwest of Broad Street and up against the south
side of the City Wall. The label All Haloues in y Wall
is west of the church. In
his description of Broad Street Ward, Stow notes only the location of the
church and the three distinguished people interred therein by 1601.
The church of All Hallows Barking is in Tower Street Ward on the southeast corner of Seething Lane and on the north side of Tower Street. Stow describes it as a fayre parish Church
.
All Hallows the Great was a church located on the south side of Thames Street and on the east side of Church Lane. faire Church with a large
cloyster
, but remarks that it has been foulely defaced and ruinated
(Stow 1: 235).
According to
A component of London’s pestilential past, Holy Trinity Churchyard in East Smithfield was a graveyard for victims of London’s first great plague. The churchyard was east of Little Tower Hill, south of Hog Lane (East Smithfield) and north of St. Katherine’s Hospital. As the number of plague victims increased, these graveyards ran out of space and Holy Trinity Priory was used to ensure that the dead were buried in holy ground.
Holy Trinity Priory, located west of Aldgate and north of Leadenhall
Street, was an Augustinian Priory.
Stow notes that in the parishes of Saint Marie Magdalen, S. Michael, S. Katherine, and the blessed Trinitie, which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinitie
(Stow).
Before
Founded in the Priory of St. John the Baptist, Holywell
.
Harben notes that St. Alphage was originally on the north side of the Wall near
Cripplegate (Harben). However, St. Alphage parish must have
straddled the Wall, because both
St. Andrew Holborn was a parish church in Farringdon Without Ward, located on Holborn street between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane. It is located on the Agas map and is labelled as S. Andrews
. According to the largest of his parish churches, measuring 32 by 19 meters and costing £9,000
(Weinreb and Hibbert 741).
St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of
The Dictionary of London notes St. Audoen sits at the north corner of Warwick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within.
St Augustine Papey was a church on the south side
of the city wall and opposite the north end of
St. Mary Axe Street. The church dated from the
twelfth century and in
A priory of Augustinian canons once encompassing St. Bartholomew the Great, St. Bartholomew the Less, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dissolved by Henry VIII.
St. Botolph, Aldgate was a parish church near Aldgate at the junction of Aldgate Street and Houndsditch. It was
located in Portsoken Ward on the north side of
Aldgate Street. Stow notes that the
Church hath beene lately new builded at the speciall charges of the
Priors of the holy Trinitie
before
the Priory was dissolved in
St. Botolph without Bishopsgate stood on the west
side of Bishopsgate Street north of Bishopsgate. It was in Bishopsgate Ward. St. Botolph without
Bishopsgate is featured on the Agas map, south of Bethlehem Hospital and west of Houndsditch. It is labelled
S. Buttolphes.
St. Christopher le Stocks was originally built on Threadneedle Street on the banks of Walbrook before was dedicated to the patron saint of watermen
(Weinreb and Hibbert 751). The church has been known by many names, which include St. Christopher upon Cornhull
, St. Christopher in Bradestrete
, and St. Christopher near le Shambles
(Harben; BHO). Since the 14th century, the church has been known as some variant of St. Christopher le Stocks, which derives from its proximity to the Stocks Market. The church is not labelled, but is identifiable, on the Agas map.
East of the Spital Fields, also known as Stebanheath.
St. Ethelburga was a church on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, south of Bishopsgate and east of St. Mary Axe. The church was in Bishopsgate
Ward. St. Ethelburga, described by Stow
as a small Parish Church
(Stow), is
located on the Agas map northwest of S. Elen
and immediately east of the
gate
in the Busshopp
gate Streate
label.
The church is visible on the Agas map along Fenchurch Street. Before the
St. George Church was on Botolph Lane in Billingsgate Ward. The church dates back at least to
For information about St. Giles, Cripplegate, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the
St. Helen’s was a priory of Benedictine nuns located
in Bishopsgate Ward between St. Mary Axe Street and Bishopsgate Street. St. Helen’s is visible on the Agas map with the
label
S. Elen
written in the churchyard. Stow and Harben inform us that the
priory was set up in 1212 by William Basing, the dean of St.
Paul’s Cathedral (Stow;
Harben).
St. James (Clerkenwell) was founded in Clarken Well
.
According to
The St. James Duke’s Place
(Stow 146–149).
The buildings on the site were destroyed in the Great Fire and then rebuilt (Sugden 281). The church was active until
St. Katherine was an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory
in
St. Katherine Coleman was also called St. Katherine and All Saints and All Hallows Coleman Church (Harben). The church can be found on the Agas map, west of Northumberland House. It is labelled
Not to be confused with St. Katherine Church, St. Katherine Cree was an old parish church in Aldgate Ward located on the north side of Leadenhall Street between Aldgate and St. Mary Axe. Stow reports that the church was so old that one had to descend seven steps to enter it. He also adds that the church’s steeple and bell tower, built in 1504, were the most recent additions (Stow). St. Katherine Cree is also known by the names St. Katherine and the Blessed Trinity and St. Katherine Christ Church. The Church is drawn on the Agas map on the north side of Leadenhall Street, south of Holy Trinity Priory and east of the well in Aldgate Street. It has no label accompanying it.
Founded by the Royal Foundation of St. Katherine, St. Katherine’s by the Tower was both a hopsital and a church. Its surrounding land became the precinct of St. Katherine’s by the Tower, which, according to Weinreb, was a precinct independent of Aldgate Ward (Weinreb 720, 778).
St. Leonard’s church—also known as
The church of St. Magnus the Martyr, believed to be founded some time in the 11th century, was on the south side of Thames Street just north of London Bridge. According to Stow, in its churchyard haue béene buried many men of good worſhip, whoſe monumentes are now for the moſt part vtterly defaced
, including
The church of St. Martin Orgar, named for Dean Orgar who gave the church to the canons, has been wrongly located by the maker of the Agas map. The church is drawn in Bridge Ward Within, south of Crooked Lane and west of New Fish Street on St. Michael’s Lane. However, the church was actually located one block northwest in Candlewick Street Ward, on the east side of St. Martin’s Lane just south of Candlewick Street.
The church of St. Mary Axe was a church on the west side of St. Mary Axe
Street in Lime Street Ward. Stow asserts the church’s full name
and dedication was S. Marie the virgine, Saint Vrsula, and the 11000. Virgins
and believed that its common name, St. Mary Axe, derived from a sign near the
church’s east side (Stow). However, a
document written during the reign of
St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate), is an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108. According to Stow, the church was begun by
Also known as St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Church was located on Whitechapel Street.
St. Michael, Aldgate, was an old parish church that
was absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108 along
with the parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, Aldgate,
and St. Katherine Cree. According to a papal bull
written during the pontificate of
According to
St. Nicholas Church was situated on the north side of St. Nicholas Shambles street in Farringdon Within Ward. The church was demolished amid
St. Nicholas Acon was located in Langbourn Ward, its parish extending into Candlewick Street Ward (Harben 437). While it was not depicted on the Agas map, Prockter and Taylor note that St. Nicholas Acon stood on the west side of St. Nicholas Lane towards the northern end
(Prockter and Taylor 51). According to Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay, Acons
is possibly derived from Haakon
, the name of one of the benefactors (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 802).
The church of St. Olave, Hart Street is found on
the south side of Hart Street and the northwest
corner of Seething Lane in Tower Street Ward. It has been suggested that the church was founded
and built before the Norman conquest of a proper [i.e. appropriate] parrish
(Stow).
According to a small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments
(Stow). It was destroyed in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt (Carlin and Belcher 91).
St. Olave (Southwark) was a church dedicated to S. Tovolles
.
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).
St. Peter le Poor was a parish church on the west
side of Broad Street. It is visible on the Agas
map south of Austin Friars, bearing the number 24.
That it was sometime peraduenture a poore Parish
gave it the name le Poor
(Stow). Its name distinguished it
from the other London churches dedicated to St. Peter. Stow mentions that at
this present there be many fayre houses, possessed by rich marchants and other
near the church, suggesting
that the parish was no longer impoverished (Stow).
St. Peter upon Cornhill stood at the highest point of the city in the south east of Cornhill Ward. According to a tablet preserved within the church, St. Peter upon Cornhill was founded by not by what authority
(Stow 1: 194) the tablet was written.
St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least
to Overies
referring to its being over
the
Thames, that is, on its southern bank.
After S. Mary Owber
.
A church used by both Middle and Inner Temples.
Westminster Abbey was a historically significant church, located on the bottom-left corner of the Agas map. Colloquially known as
According to
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Churches in early modern London. For the generic place, see Church.