St Vedast alias Foster

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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.

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St Thomas the Apostle

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Location: St Thomas the Apostle, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′40″N 0°5′36″W).

St Thomas the Apostle

St Thomas the Apostle was a parish church in Knightrider Street[1] in the City of London In existence by the late twelfth century, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.

History of St Thomas the Apostle:

The patronage of the church belonged to the canons of St Paul's and it is mentioned in the register of the Dean and Chapter as early as 1181. John Stow implies that was rebuilt some time in the late fourteenth century, describing John Barnes, Lord Mayor in 1371 as "a great builder of S. Thomas Apostles parish church as appeareth by his armes there both in stone and glasse".

The parish was staunchly Royalist in the years leading up to the Civil War In 1642 the rector, named. Cooper, was sequestered and imprisoned in Leeds Castle for his loyalty to the king.

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St Swithin, London Stone

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Location: St Swithin, London Stone, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′42″N 0°5′22″W).

St Swithin, London Stone

St Swithin, London Stone, was an Anglican Church in the City of London. It stood on the north side of Cannon Street, between Salters' Hall Court and St Swithin's Lane, which runs north from Cannon Street to King William Street and takes its name from the church. Of medieval origin, it was destroyed by the Great Fire of London, and rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It was badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War, and the remains demolished in 1962.

History of St Swithin, London Stone:

St Swithin's church was first recorded in the 13th century, and was dedicated to Saint Swithin, a 9th-century bishop of Winchester. At first known as "St Swithin in Candlewick Street" (the medieval name of Cannon Street), in 1597 it was referred to as "St Swithin at London Stone", and this became the normal designation. London Stone itself stood on the south side of Candlewick Street, opposite the church.

One of the earliest references to the church is as the final resting place of Catrin Glyndŵr, wife of rebel Edmund Mortimer and daughter of Owain Glyndŵr, the legendary Welsh leader. She was taken hostage when the English captured Harlech Castle in 1409 and incarcerated in the Tower of London. Catrin Glyndŵr died in mysterious circumstances four years later. The only record of her death is in the Exchequer documents of 1413: "for expenses and other charges incurred for the burial of the wife of Edmund Mortimer and her daughters, buried within St Swithin's Church London ... £1".

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St Stephen Walbrook

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Location: St Stephen Walbrook, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′45.46″N 0°5′23.71″W).

Website: http://ststephenwalbrook.net

Phone: +44 20 7626 9000

St Stephen Walbrook

St Stephen, Walbrook is a church in the City of London, part of the Church of England's Diocese of London. The present domed building was erected to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren following the destruction of its medieval predecessor in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is located in Walbrook, next to the Mansion House, and near to Bank and Monument Underground stations.

History of St Stephen Walbrook:

The original church of St Stephen stood on the west side of the Walbrook,. a stream running southwards across the City of London from the City Wall near Moorfields to the Thames.

The church was moved to its present site, on the east side of the Walbrook. (later concealed in a culvert)  in the fifteenth century. In 1429 Robert Chichely, acting as executor of will of the former Lord Mayor, Sir William Stondon, bought a piece of land on the east side of the Walbrook, and presented it to the parish. Several foundation stones were laid at a ceremony on 11 May 1429, and the church was consecrated ten years later, on 30 April 1439.[5] At 125 feet (38 m) long and, 67 feet (20 m) wide it was considerably larger than the present building.

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St Stephen Coleman Street

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Location: St Stephen Coleman Street, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51.5155°N 0.0904°W).

Website: http://jermy.org/stephen.html%E2%80%8E

St Stephen Coleman Street

St. Stephen's Church, Coleman Street was a church in the City of London, at the corner of Coleman Street and what is now Gresham Street, first mentioned in the 13th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, it was rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. The church was destroyed again, by bombing in 1940, and was never rebuilt.

History of St Stephen Coleman Street:

St. Stephen's was one of two City churches dedicated to the Christian protomartyr St. Stephen who, by tradition, suffered lapidation in Jerusalem in about 35 AD. Coleman Street itself is named after the charcoal burners who used to live there. During the reign of Henry III, the church is recorded as St. Stephen in the Jewry owing to its situation in the quarter of London inhabited by many Jews. John Stow asserted, incorrectly, that the building had been used as a synagogue.

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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

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Location: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°31′0.07″N 0°6′8.47″W).

Website: www.st-sepulchre.org.uk

Phone: +44 20 7236 1145

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, also known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Holborn), is an Anglican church in the City of London. It is located on Holborn Viaduct, almost opposite the Old Bailey. In medieval times it stood just outside ("without") the now-demolished old city wall, near the Newgate. It has been a living of St John's College, Oxford, since 1622.

History of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate:

The original Saxon church on the site was dedicated to St Edmund the King and Martyr. During the Crusades in the 12th century the church was renamed St Edmund and the Holy Sepulchre, in reference to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The name eventually became contracted to St Sepulchre.

The church is today the largest parish church in the City. It was completely rebuilt in the 15th century but was gutted by the Great Fire of London in 1666,[1] which left only the outer walls, the tower and the porch standing[2] -. Modified in the 18th century, the church underwent extensive restoration in 1878. It narrowly avoided destruction in the Second World War, although the 18th-century watch-house in its churchyard (erected to deter grave-robbers) was completely destroyed and had to be rebuilt.

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St Peter upon Cornhill

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Location: St Peter upon Cornhill, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′47.7″N 0°5′4.5″W).

St Peter upon Cornhill

St Peter upon Cornhill is an Anglican church on the corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street in the City of London of medieval origin. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It is now a satellite church in the parish of St Helen's Bishopsgate and is used for staff training, bible studies and a youth club. The St Helen's church office controls access to St Peter's.

History of St Peter upon Cornhill:

The church of St Peter upon Cornhill stands on the highest point of the City of London. A tradition grew up that the church was of very ancient origin and was the seat of an archbishop until the establishment of Canterbury Cathedral at the end of the 6th century.

The London historian John Stow, writing at the end of the 16th century, reported "there remaineth in this church a table whereon is written, I know not by what authority, but of a late hand, that King Lucius founded the same church to be an archbishop's see metropolitan, and chief church of his kingdom, and that it so endured for four hundred years". The "table" (tablet) seen by Stow was destroyed when the medieval church was burnt in the Great Fire, but before this time a number of writers had recorded what it said. The text of the original tablet as printed by John Weever in 1631 began:

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St Peter, Westcheap

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Location: St Peter, Westcheap, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′51.93″N 0°5′41.64″W).

St Peter, Westcheap

St Peter, Westcheap, sometimes known simply as “St Peter Cheap”, was a parish church in the City of London. It stood at the south west corner of Wood Street in the ward of Farringdon Within. Parts of the parish were also in Bread Street and Cripplegate Wards  Of medieval origin, it was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.

History of St Peter, Westcheap:

St Peter Westcheap was originally built in the twelfth century. Both church and steeple were rebuilt with funds left in his will by Sir John Shaw, following his death in 1503; one of Shaw's stipulations was that the church should be reconstructed with a flat ceiling. The sixteenth century church was an aisled building; Richard Newcourt noted that, notwithsanding Shaw's bequest, "Thomas Wood, Goldsmith was accounted a principal Benefactor, because the Roof of the middle Isle was supported by Images of Woodmen." Repairs were carried out in 1616-17, at a cost to the parishioners of £314.

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St Peter, Paul's Wharf

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Location: St Peter, Paul's Wharf, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51.512215,-0.099245).

Website: http://www.stbenetwelshchurch.org.uk

Phone: +44 20 7489 8754

St Peter, Paul's Wharf

St Peter, Paul's Wharf, was a parish church in the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. First mentioned in the 12th Century It stood to the north of Upper Thames Street in Queenhithe Ward The parish was defiant in continuing to use the Book of Common Prayer during the Civil War.

History of St Peter, Paul's Wharf:

St Peter's was, along with most of the City's other parish churches, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666. A Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt. Fifty-one were chosen, but St Peter Paul’s Wharf was not among them. Following the fire the parish was united with that of St Benet Paul's Wharf.

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St Peter le Poer

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Location: St Peter le Poer, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51.5151°N 0.0850°W).

Website: www.saintpeterlepoer.org.uk

Phone: +44 20 8883 1526

St Peter le Poer

St Peter le Poer was a church on the west side of Broad Street in the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt in 1540, and again in 1792 to a design by Jesse Gibson with a circular nave. It was demolished in 1907.

History of St Peter le Poer:

The church, often spelt "St Peter le Poor" was in existence by the end of the twelfth century. The name was traditionally explained as a reference to the poverty of the area - although by the beginning of the nineteenth century it was one of the richest in the City - or to its proximity to the monastery of St Augustine, whose monks professed indigence. The patronage of the church belonged to the dean and chapter of St Paul's Cathedral.

It was rebuilt in 1540, and enlarged on the north side in 1615. In 1630 the steeple was rebuilt, and a west gallery added. The church was 54 feet long and 51 feet wide, with a small tower in the north-west corner. A clock hung from the middle of a beam extending across the road from the church. By the late 18th century the ground level around the church had risen so much that curtains were drawn across the lower parts of the windows during services, to stop passers-by looking through them.

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St Paul's Cathedral

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Location: St Paul's Cathedral, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′49″N 0°05′53″W).

Website: http://www.stpauls.co.uk

Phone: +44 20 7246 8350

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604.[1] The present church, dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. Its construction, completed within Wren's lifetime, was part of a major rebuilding program which took place in the city after the Great Fire of London.

History of St Paul's Cathedral:

There was a late-Roman episcopal see in London, and Bishop Restitutus of London attended the Council of Arles in AD 314. The location of Roman London's cathedral is unknown, although it has been argued that a large and ornate 4th-century building on Tower Hill, remains of which were excavated in 1989, may have been the cathedral.

The Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden argued that a Roman temple dedicated to the goddess Diana had once stood on the site of the medieval St Paul's cathedral. Christopher Wren reported that he had found no trace of any such temple during the works to build the new cathedral after the Great Fire, and Camden's hypothesis is not accepted by modern archaeologists.

Bede records that in AD 604 St Augustine consecrated Mellitus as the first bishop to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Saxons and their king, Sæberht. Sæberht's uncle and overlord, Æthelberht, king of Kent, built a church dedicated to St Paul in London, as the seat of the new bishop. It is assumed, although unproven, that this first Anglo-Saxon cathedral stood on the same site as the later medieval and the present cathedrals.

On the death of Sæberht in about 616, his pagan sons expelled Mellitus from London, and the East Saxons reverted to paganism. The fate of the first cathedral building is unknown. Christianity was restored among the East Saxons in the late 7th-century and it is presumed that either the Anglo-Saxon cathedral was restored or a new building erected as the seat of bishops such as Cedd, Wine and Earconwald, the last of whom was buried in the cathedral in 693. This building, or a successor, was destroyed by fire in 962, but rebuilt in the same year. King Æthelred the Unready was buried in the cathedral on his death in 1016. The cathedral was burnt, with much of the city, in a fire in 1087, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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St Olave, Silver Street

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Location: St Olave, Silver Street, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51.5173°N 0.0953°W).

St Olave, Silver Street

St Olave, Silver Street, was a church dedicated to St Olaf ( a Norwegian Christian ally of the English king Ethelred II) on the south side of Silver Street, off Wood Street in the City of London.

History of St Olave, Silver Street:

The first reference to the church, in the twelfth century, refers to it as "St Olave de Mukewellestrate" from its proximity to Monkwell Street. John Stow described it as "a small thing, without any noteworthy monuments." 

It was rebuilt in 1609 and repaired 1662, at a cost of £50 7s 6d. It had a small churchyard, and owned another piece of land for burials in Noble Street, which was known as the "anatomizer's ground".[3]

The church was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Instead the parish was united with that of St Alban, Wood Street. The site is now a garden, at the end of Noble Street. A late 17th Century tablet marks the spot where it once stood, off London Wall, near the Museum of London.

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St Olave, Old Jewry

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St Olave, Old Jewry

St Olave, Old Jewry sometimes known as Upwell Old Jewry was a church in the City of London located between the street called Old Jewry and Ironmonger Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, the church was rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. The church was demolished in 1887, except for the tower and west wall, which remain today.

History of St Olave, Old Jewry:

St Olave, Old Jewry is dedicated to the 11th century patron saint of Norway, St Olaf. Old Jewry was the precinct of medieval London largely occupied and populated by Jews until their expulsion from England in 1290. The church is also recorded as St Olave in Colechirchlane and St Olave, Upwell, the latter appellation coming from a well under the east end of the church.

The earliest surviving reference is in a manuscript of c.1130, but excavations made during 1985 uncovered the foundations of a Saxon predecessor, built between the 9th and 11th centuries, from Kentish ragstone and recycled Roman bricks.

After the church’s destruction in the Great Fire, the parish was united with that of St Martin Pomeroy, a tiny church that already shared the small churchyard of St Olave Old Jewry. The two pre-Fire churches were nearly adjacent. Rebuilding began in 1671, incorporating much of the medieval walls and foundations. The tower was built separately, projecting from the west of the church, and required the carpenter to build a timber platform 16 feet (4.9 m) below ground to support the rubble foundation. The church was completed in 1679 at a cost of £5,580, including £10 paid to the then still ruined St Paul's Cathedral for rubble.

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St Olave, Hart Street

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Location: St Olave, Hart Street, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′39.04″N 0°4′46.88″W).

Phone: +44 20 7488 4318

Web: http://www.sanctuaryinthecity.net/St-Olaves.html

St Olave, Hart Street

St Olave Hart Street is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on the corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane near Fenchurch Street railway station.

John Betjeman described St Olave’s as “a country church in the world of Seething Lane." The church is one of the smallest in the City and is one of only a handful of medieval City churches that escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666. In addition to being a local parish church, St Olave’s is the Ward Church of the Tower Ward of the City of London.

History of St Olave, Hart Street:

The church is first recorded in the 13th century as St Olave-towards-the-Tower, a stone building replacing the earlier (presumably wooden) construction. It is dedicated to the patron saint of Norway, King Olaf II of Norway, who fought alongside the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred the Unready against the Danes in the Battle of London Bridge in 1014. He was canonised after his death and the church of St Olave's was built apparently on the site of the battle.[citation needed] The Norwegian connection was reinforced during the Second World War when King Haakon VII of Norway worshipped there while in exile.

Saint Olave's was rebuilt in the 13th century and then again in the 15th century. The present building dates from around 1450. According to John Stow’s Survey of London (1603), a major benefactor of the church in the late 15th century was wool merchant Richard Cely Sr. (d. 1482), who held the advowson on the church (inherited by his son, Richard Cely, Jr.). On his death, Cely bequeathed money for making the steeple and an altar in the church. The merchant mark of the Cely family was carved in two of the corbels in the nave (and were extant until the bombing of World War II). No memorial to the Celys now remains in the church.

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St Nicholas, Cole Abbey

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Location: St Nicholas, Cole Abbey, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′43″N 0°5′48″W).

St Nicholas, Cole Abbey

St. Nicholas Cole Abbey is a church in the City of London located on what is now Queen Victoria Street. Recorded from the twelfth century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. The church suffered substantial bomb damage from German bombs during the London Blitz in the Second World War and was reconstructed by Arthur Bailey in 1961-2.

History of St Nicholas, Cole Abbey:

The church is named after the 4th century St Nicholas of Myra. “Cole Abbey” is derived from “coldharbour”, a medieval word for a traveller’s shelter or shelter from the cold. The earliest reference to the church is in a letter of Pope Lucius II in 1144-5.

St Nicholas of Myra is patron saint of, among other groups, children and fishermen, and the church has special ties with both. An inventory of the church’s possessions taken at the time of the Protestant Reformation includes vestments for children, suggesting that the church maintained the tradition of electing a boy bishop on Saint Nicholas Day. Deeds in the reign of Richard I refer to a new fish market near St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. In a Charter of 1272, the church is referred to as ‘St Nick’s behind Fish Street’. During the 16th century, several fishmongers were buried here and John Stow records that during the reign of Elizabeth I, a lead and stone cistern, fed by the Thames, was set up against the north wall ‘for the care and commodity of the Fishmongers in and about Old Fish Street’.

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St Nicholas Shambles

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Location: St Nicholas Shambles, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′56″N 0°5′54″W).

St Nicholas Shambles

St Nicholas Shambles was a mediaeval church in the City of London. It was on the corner of Butcher Hall Lane (now King Edward St) and Newgate St. It took its name from the Shambles, the butchers area in the west of Newgate St. The site was extensively excavated in 1975–9 in preparation for the GPO headquarters, now the BT Centre, the headquarters of BT Group.

The church is first mentioned as St. Nicholas de Westrnacekaria. In 1253 Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester granted indulgences to its parishioners.

History of St Nicholas Shambles:

The excavations in the 1970s identified several phases of building. The original nave and chancel probably dated from the eleventh century. They were extended in the late twelfth century. Chapels were added to the east end in the fourteenth century, a north aisle was added to the nave in the first half of the fifteenth century, and, finally the east end was rebuilt and a sacristy added on the north.

In 1546, Henry VIII gave the church, along with that of St Ewin (also known as St Audoen) and the dissolved Christ Church priory to the City corporation. A new parish was created for Christ Church, out of those of St Nicholas and St Ewin, and part of that of St Sepulchre. St Nicholas' was demolished in 1547.

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St Nicholas Olave

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Location: St Nicholas Olave, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′43″N 0°5′36″W).

St Nicholas Olave

A former church in the City of London, on the west side of Bread Street Hill in Queenhithe Ward.

The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London.

History of St Nicholas Olave:

By September 6 the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed in the Fire of London. In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt. Fifty-one were chosen, but not St Nicholas Olave. Its unusual dedication refers to the earlier amalgamation between two parishes: St Nicholas and St Olave Bradestrat, which was removed by the Austin Friars for the erection of their monastic buildings. Described by John Stow as a “convenient church” the parish had strong connections with the Fishmongers, many of whom were buried in the churchyard. Its eminent organist William Blitheman also lay here. Following the fire it was united with St Nicholas Cole Abbey and partial records survive and are available in the International Genealogical Index.

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St Nicholas Acons

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Location: St Nicholas Acons, City of London, London, England, United Kingdom. (51°30′43.46″N 0°5′13.68″W).

St Nicholas Acons

St Nicholas Acons was an Anglican parish church, dating back to the 9th century(Youngs,1979) and situated in Nicholas Lane(Hallows,1954) within the City of London, which was destroyed during the Great Fire of London and not rebuilt(Reynolds,1922). Its parish book, however, did survive and records that a foundling discovered in 1539 was named Nicholas Acons(Brigg,1890), the name itself stemming from a mediaeval benefactor(Stow,1890). The parish was united with St Edmund the King and Martyr, Lombard Street in 1670.(Hibbert) The name was retained as a precinct title  in the south-western part of Langbourn Ward, one of the 25 self-governing wards, and featured in a famous 18th-century court case.[3] In the 1860s a proposed unification of benefices between St Edmunds with St Nicholas and St Mary Woolnoth with St Mary Woolchurch Haw(Times 1861) was vigorously defended by St N.A.’s[4] discrete churchwardens.[5] In 1964 the churchyard was excavated and important Saxon remains found[6] but by the last decade of the 20th century Huelin(1996) found only a City Corporation Commemoration at the site of the old parsonage remained to indicate a church had ever been there.

History of St Nicholas Acons:

The parish now forms part of the combined parish of St Edmund the King and Martyr, and St Mary Woolnoth Lombard Street with St Nicholas Acons, All Hallows Lombard Street, St Benet Gracechurch, St Leonard Eastcheap, St Dionis Backchurch and St Mary Woolchurch Haw - usually shortened to "St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth". It is part of the Church of England's Diocese of London.

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