St Mary Colechurch

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St Mary Colechurch
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Denomination Roman Catholic, Anglican
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Address London
Country United Kingdom

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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[2], 86 churches having been destroyed[3]. By 1670 a Rebuilding Act had been passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to plan the new parishes[4]. Fifty-one were chosen, but St Mary Colechurch was one of the sad minority never to be rebuilt[5]. The church was situated at the junction of Poultry and the south end of Old Jewry[6]. Named after its first benefactor[7], it was a prosperous parish[8] able to support a grammar school[9] (which was rebuilt on the site after the fire and continued in that locality until 1787. The parish was united with St Mildred, Poultry [10], although the parishioners objected on the grounds that

This was a noisy, crowded parish perpetually disturbed by carts and coaches, and wants sufficient place for burials Representations to Wren's Committee,1670.[11]

When this too was deemed surplus to requirements[12], following the passing of the 1860 Union of Benefices Act, it passed successively through partnerships with St Olave Jewry and St Margaret Lothbury[13]. Pearce[14] notes that the last traces of any building vanished in 1839 although a Parish Boundary Mark inside the Mercers’ Hall still exists[15].

[edit] References

  1. ^ The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London Clark, O in “London, Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society Vol 8, January 2006” ISSN: 0956-618X
  2. ^ “Diary of Samuel Pepys” Dover, Lewis Publications,1992 ISBN 048636675
  3. ^ “The Churches of the City of London” Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922
  4. ^ “Wren” Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129
  5. ^ “The City of London Churches” Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
  6. ^ “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C. : New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
  7. ^ “A survey of London” Stow,J A (W.Thoms,Ed): London, A Whittaker & Co,1842- rev of 1598 book
  8. ^ “Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire 1, Cheapside : Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St.Martin Pomary, St. Mary le Bow, St. Mary Colechurch, and St. Pancras Soper Lane” Keene,D & Harding V.: Cambridge,Chadwyck-Healey, 1987 ISBN 0859641902
  9. ^ “Vanished churches of the City of London” Huelin, G.: London, Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424
  10. ^ Geneological web site
  11. ^ “The London City Churches” Norman,P. London, The London Society, 1929
  12. ^ “The history of the church of St. Mildred the Virgin, Poultry, in the city of London, with some particulars of the church of St. Mary Colechurch” Milbourn,T: London,John Russell Smith,1872
  13. ^ “Church of England, Parish of St. Margaret Lothbury. - Papers relating to the proposed union of the rectory of St Margaret Lothbury, 1883.” - M0023569CL cited in City of London Parish Registers Guide 4 Hallows,A.(Ed): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300
  14. ^ “Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations” Pearce,C.W. London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd 1909
  15. ^ Premier Livery Company

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