Church in City of London, England
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]
References
^ 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
^ "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
^ The "Churches of the City of London" ; Reynolds,H.: London: Bodley Head, 1922
^ Wren Whinney, M. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971
ISBN
0-500-20112-9
^ Pearce, C. W. (1909). Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations . London: Winthrop Rogers.
^ The City of London Churches ; Betjeman, J. Andover: Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992)
ISBN
0-85372-565-9
^ A Dictionary of London ; Harben, H.: London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918
^ Churches of the City of London , Huelin, G. London: Guildhall Library Publications, 1996 ISBN 0900422424
^ The London Encyclopaedia; Hibbert, C.; Weinreb, B..; Keay, J.: London: Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev. 1993, 2008)
ISBN
978-1-4050-4924-5
51°30′36″N 0°05′10″W / 51.51013°N 0.086001°W / 51.51013; -0.086001
extant churches
All Hallows-by-the-Tower
All Hallows-on-the-Wall
City Temple
Dutch Church, Austin Friars
St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
St Andrew, Holborn
St Andrew Undershaft
St Anne and St Agnes
St Bartholomew-the-Great
St Bartholomew-the-Less
St Benet, Paul's Wharf
St Botolph, Aldersgate
St Botolph, Aldgate
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
St Bride, Fleet Street
St Clement, Eastcheap
St Dunstan-in-the-West
St Edmund, King and Martyr
St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate
St Giles, Cripplegate
St Helen, Bishopsgate
St James, Garlickhythe
St Katharine Cree
St Lawrence Jewry
St Magnus the Martyr
St Margaret Lothbury
St Margaret Pattens
St Martin, Ludgate
St Mary Abchurch
St Mary Aldermary
St Mary Moorfields
St Mary Woolnoth
St Mary-at-Hill
St Mary-le-Bow
St Michael, Cornhill
St Michael, Paternoster Royal
St Nicholas, Cole Abbey
St Olave, Hart Street
St Paul's Cathedral
St Peter upon Cornhill
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate
St Stephen Walbrook
St Vedast alias Foster
Temple Church
churches of which only the tower remains churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished churches destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt other former churches