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Location: St Vedast alias Foster, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′53.56″N 0°5′46.08″W).
Website: www.vedast.org.uk
Phone: +44 20 7606 3998
St Vedast alias Foster
Saint Vedast Foster Lane or Saint Vedast-alias-Foster, a church in Foster Lane, in the City of London, is dedicated to St. Vedast (Foster is an Anglicisation of his name), a French saint whose cult came to England through contacts with Augustinian clergy.
History of St Vedast alias Foster:
The original church of St Vedast was founded before 1308 and was extensively repaired in the seventeenth century.
Although the church was not completely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666,[3] it was restored by 1672 on parochial initiative. However, the church required substantial reconstruction by the office of Sir Christopher Wren between 1695 and 1701, with only small parts of the older building surviving to be incorporated, most noticeably parts of the medieval fabric in the south wall which were revealed by cleaning in 1992-3. The spire, considered one of the most baroque of all the City spires, was added in 1709-12[4] at a cost of £2958, possibly to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor whose correspondence with the churchwardens survives. The organ was built by Renatus Harris in 1731, originally for St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange.
