St Mary Staining

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St Mary Staining
Current photo of site
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Denomination Roman Catholic, Anglican
Contact particulars
Address Oat Lane, London
Country United Kingdom

Portal:Christianity

St Mary Staining is a lost church in Oat Lane[1], EC2, in the City of London. The first reference to it is to "Ecclesia de Staningehage" in 1189, probably deriving from a family from Staines holding land in the area of the church[2]. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. Its parish was united to St Michael Wood Street in 1670, and later to St Alban Wood Street in 1894 and finally St Vedast Foster Lane in 1954. Pevsner found a “few battered tombstones” in nearby Oat Lane[3].Since 1965 its site has been a City of London Corporation garden, containing a historic tree (a neighbouring banking building was built semi-circular so as not to damage it).

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  1. ^ "London:the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550
  2. ^ Gordon Huelin in his seminal "Vanished Churches of the City of London" (London, Guildhall Library Publishing,1996 ISBN 0900422424) gives two further possibilities 1 Named after the painter stainers who lived in the area in medieval times or 2 From the Saxon word for stone.
  3. ^ "London:the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550

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