St. Martin Orgar
The church of St. Martin Orgar,
named for Dean Orgar who gave the church to the canons, has been wrongly
located by the maker of the "Agas" map. The church is drawn in Bridge Ward Within, south of Crooked Lane and west of New Fish Street on St. Michael's Lane. However, the church was
actually located one block northwest in Candlewick Street Ward, on the east side of St. Martin's Lane just south of Candlewick Street. Early names for the church were
variants on St. Martin's
Candlewickstreet. The church is correctly located on Vertue's map
(British Library Online Gallery) and on Cole's engraving of Langbourne and Candlewick Wards (British Library Online Gallery). (See Harben; BHO.)
This error is one of two such mistakes on the "Agas" map. The maker also
mislocated the church of St. Pancras,
Soper Lane.
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Sources
- Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. Print. Rpt. British History Online. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=3. Web. Harben's Dictionary is organized alphabetically. One can also do keyword searches for words that occur within entries. In our in-text parenthetical references (Harben; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source. [Source updated 31 August 2011.]
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.