St Gabriel Fenchurch
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| St Gabriel Fenchurch | |
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 Plaque opposite Cullum Street
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| Denomination | Anglican |
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| Address | Fenchurch Street, London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London.[1] By September 6th the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed.[2] By 1670 a Rebuilding Act had been passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt.[3] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Gabriel Fenchurch in Langbourn Ward[4] was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt.[5] The church was situated in the MIDDLE of Fenchurch Street,[6] an inconvenient arrangement[7] even for the higgledy-piggledy street patterns of the overcrowded "Square Mile".[8] Stow[9] says the church, first mentioned in 1321, took its name from the marshy ground on which it was built while Huelin[10] asserts it derives from a mispronunciation of the Latin for the hay market in nearby Gracechurch Street. A prosperous parish[11]it received three new bells in 1552[12] and was “beautified” in 1631.[13] Following the fire it was united to St Margaret Pattens[14]although its land holding was not finally resolved until 13 years later.[15] Charitable bequests continued to be made using the old name[16]and partial records still survive at IGI.[17]. Pevsner found three 18th century tombstones in nearby Fen Court[18].
[edit] References
- ^ "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 0500201129
- ^ Location described
- ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
- ^ "A Dictionary of London" Harben, H.: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
- ^ Pre Great Fire Burial
- ^ Samuel Pepys comments after visit on 9 April 1665 “Diary”: Dover, Lewis Publications,1992 ISBN 048636675
- ^ ”A survey of London” Stow,J A (W.Thoms,Ed): London, A Whittaker & Co,1842- rev of 1598 book
- ^ ”Vanished Churches of the City of London” Huelin,G London Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424
- ^ Residents listed
- ^ 1552 "iij bells"
- ^ “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C. : New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
- ^ Two separate entities preserved
- ^ "Deeds and documents concerning nos. 143-149 Fenchurch Street (north side) 1679." - v185779x cited in City of London Parish Registers Guide 4 Hallows,A.(Ed) : London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300
- ^ The Endowed Charities of the City of London,1829
- ^ Genealogical Web-Site
- ^ "London:the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550
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