St. Peter le Poor
Agas MapList documents mentioning St. Peter le Poor- Austin Friars
- Gazetteer (P)
- Gazetteer (S)
- Himatia-Poleos: The Triumphs of Old Drapery, or the Rich Clothing of England
- Historical Personography
- Londini Status Pecatus: or, London’s Peacable Estate
- Mayoral Shows: A Chronology
- Order for Prices of Tallow
- Survey of London: Broad Street Ward
- Survey of London: Parishes
- Survey of London: Temporal Government of London
- The Survey of London (1633): Aldgate Ward
- The Survey of London (1633): Broadstreet Ward
- The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity
- Variant spellings
St. Peter le Poor was a parish church on the west
side of Broad Street. It is visible on the Agas
map south of Austin Friars, bearing the number 24.
That it was
sometime peraduenture a poore Parishgave it the name
le Poor(Stow). Its name distinguished it from the other London churches dedicated to St. Peter. Stow mentions that
at this present there be many fayre houses, possessed by rich marchants and othernear the church (Stow), suggesting that the parish was no longer impoverished.
The church underwent repairs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before a
complete rebuilding was undertaken in 1788. During construction, the church had
to be moved further west because it had been hanging over the street. The last
vestiges of the early modern building can be seen in Benjamin Cole’s 1754
engraving of Broad Street Ward
(Cole),
before construction changed the face of the church. The church stood until the
early twentieth century when it was removed (Harben).
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.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 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents:
