St Margaret, New Fish Street

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St Margaret, New Fish Street [1]
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St Margaret, New Fish Street
Location The Monument, City of London
Country United Kingdom
Denomination Anglican
History
Founded10th century
Architecture
Demolished1666

St Margaret, New Fish Street, was a parish church in the City of London.

The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerks' Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London. [2] By September 6 the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed in the Great Fire of London. [3] The Rebuilding of London Act 1670 was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt. [4] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Margaret New Fish Street where the Monument now stands [5] in Bridge Ward was one of the minority never to be rebuilt. [6]

Variously called St Margaret Bridge Street and St Margaret Fish Street Hill, [7] it received many gifts from the pilgrims who passed it on the way to and from London Bridge. [8]

Following the fire it was united to St Magnus-the-Martyr. [9]

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References

  1. Name recorded as such in Church of England, Parish of St. Margaret New Fish Street, Vestry and parish officers Annuity bonds with papers appertaining Ms 11383 cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows, A.(ed.): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN   0-900422-30-0
  2. "The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London" Clark, O. :London, Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society; Vol. 8, January 2006 ISSN   0956-618X
  3. The "Churches of the City of London"; Reynolds,H.: London: Bodley Head, 1922
  4. Wren Whinney, M. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN   0-500-20112-9
  5. Pearce, C. W. (1909). Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations. London: Winthrop Rogers.
  6. The City of London Churches; Betjeman, J. Andover: Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN   0-85372-565-9
  7. A Dictionary of London; Harben, H.: London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918
  8. Churches of the City of London, Huelin, G. London: Guildhall Library Publications, 1996 ISBN 0900422424
  9. The London Encyclopaedia; Hibbert, C.; Weinreb, B..; Keay, J.: London: Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev. 1993, 2008) ISBN   978-1-4050-4924-5

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