St. Ethelburga
St. Ethelburga was a church on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, south of Bishopsgate and east of St. Mary Axe. The church was in Bishopsgate
Ward. St. Ethelburga, described by Stow
as a
small Parish Church(Stow), is located on the Agas map northwest of
S. Elenand immediately east of the
gatein the
Busshopp gate Streatelabel.
The church, named after an Abbess of Barking who died in 676, originally belonged
to the Priory of St. Helens (Harben). After the Dissolution of the Monasteries
and St. Helens’ subsequent surrender, St.
Ethelburga passed into the ownership of the Bishop of London. The
seventeenth century saw many attempts to repair the church (Harben). It survived the Great Fire of London and therefore retained much of its early medieval architecture well into
the later stages of the twentieth century. The church also survived the Blitz in
World War II, but was devastated in 1993 by an IRA bomb. It has since been rebuilt.
For more information on St. Ethelburga’s modern church, see their website.
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written after 2011 cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents:
