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Location: St Benet Sherehog, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′47.5″N 0°5′29″W).
St Benet Sherehog
St Benet Sherehog, additionally dedicated to St Osyth, was a medieval church built before the year 1111, on a site now occupied by No 1 Poultry in Cordwainer Ward, in what was then the wool-dealing district of the City of London. A shere hog is a castrated ram after its first shearing.
History of St Benet Sherehog:
The church was originally dedicated to St Osyth. Sise Lane in the parish uses a corrupted form of the saint's.name.
The patronage of the church belonged to the monastery of St Mary Overy until the Dissolution, when it passed to the Crown.
Matthew Griffith chaplain to Charles I was rector from 1640 until 1642, when he was removed from the post and imprisoned after preaching a sermon entitled "A Pathetical Persuasion to Pray for Publick Peace" in St Paul's Cathederal.
