Churches
Churches in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented
in MoEML’s sources. For the generic place, see Church.
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Joey Takeda
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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda.
Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.Roles played in the project
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).Roles played in the project
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Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.
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Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
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The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print. -
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Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..The City Cannot Hold You
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Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
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Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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Locations
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Abbey of St. Clare
Founded in 1293 by Edmund, earl of Lancaster, the Abbey of St. Clare is also referred to in Stow’s Survey asthe Minories
(Stow 1633, sig. M2v), a name derived from the toponymthe Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Mary of the Order of St. Clare
(Harben 416). It occupied five acres of land. After the Abbey was surrendered to Henry VIII by Dame Elizabeth Salvage, the abbess, the site was occupied by the Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Minories until 1899 (Harben 151).Abbey of St. Clare is mentioned in the following documents:
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Abbey of St. Mary Graces
The Abbey of St. Mary Graces is a chapel built in around 1350 within the Holy Trinity Churchyard and later a large monastery controlled by the Cistercian order (Harben). The abbey was built within the aforementioned churchyard, east of Little Tower Hill and south of Hog Lane (East Smithfield).Abbey of St. Mary Graces is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows (Bread Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows (Honey Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows (Lombard Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows (London Wall)
All Hallows, London Wall is a church built east of Bishopsgate, near or on the City Wall. The church is visible on the Agas map northwest of Broad Street and up against the south side of the City Wall. The labelAll Haloues in y Wall
is west of the church. In his description of Broad Street Ward, Stow notes only the location of the church and the three distinguished people interred therein by 1601.All Hallows (London Wall) is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows Barking
The church of All Hallows Barking is in Tower Street Ward on the southeast corner of Seething Lane and on the north side of Tower Street. Stow describes it as afayre parish Church.
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All Hallows Staining is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows the Great
All Hallows the Great was a church located on the south side of Thames Street and on the east side of Church Lane. Stow describes it as afaire Church with a large cloyster,
but remarks that it has beenfoulely defaced and ruinated
(Stow 1:235).All Hallows the Great is mentioned in the following documents:
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All Hallows the Less is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bermondsey Abbey
According to Stow, Bermondsey Abbey dates back to the 11th century. It was surrendered to Henry VIII in 1539 and subsequently demolished to be replaced with houses (Stow 1598, sig. Z4v).Bermondsey Abbey is mentioned in the following documents:
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Blackfriars Monastery is mentioned in the following documents:
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Christ Church is mentioned in the following documents:
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Church of St. Trinity is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holy Trinity (Minories) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holy Trinity Churchyard (East Smithfield)
A component of London’s pestilential past, Holy Trinity Churchyard in East Smithfield was a graveyard for victims of London’s first great plague. The churchyard was east of Little Tower Hill, south of Hog Lane (East Smithfield) and north of St. Katherine’s Hospital. As the number of plague victims increased, these graveyards ran out of space and Holy Trinity Priory was used to ensure that the dead were buried in holy ground.Holy Trinity Churchyard (East Smithfield) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holy Trinity Priory
Holy Trinity Priory, located west of Aldgate and north of Leadenhall Street, was an Augustinian Priory. Stow notes that Queen Matilda established the Priory in 1108in the parishes of Saint Marie Magdalen, S. Michael, S. Katherine, and the blessed Trinitie, which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinitie
(Stow). Before Matilda united these parishes under the name Holy Trinity Priory, they were collectively known as the Holy Cross or Holy Roode parish (Stow; Harben).Holy Trinity Priory is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holy Trinity the Less is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holywell Priory
Founded in the 12th century, Holywell Priory stood along the west side of Shoreditch Street and the north side of Hog Lane (Norton Folgate), occupying the site that would later house London’s first playhouse, the Theatre. The priory was dissolved on 10 October 1539 (Bowsher,Holywell Priory
232). The priory was also known asPriory of St. John the Baptist, Holywell.
Holywell Priory is mentioned in the following documents:
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King’s Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lovel’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pardon Church is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pardon Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Alban (Wood Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Alphage
Harben notes that St. Alphage was originally on the north side of the Wall near Cripplegate (Harben). However, St. Alphage parish must have straddled the Wall, because both Stow and Harben note that parts of theparish of St. Alphage, London Wall on the south side of the Wall were given over for the construction of the Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate in 1329 (Stow 1598, sig. Q5v). After Henry VIII’s 1531 dissolution of the Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate, part of that hospital on the south side of the Wall was given to St. Alphage (Stow 1598, sig. Q5v). The church then moved there, presumably along Gayspur Lane, which according to Stow was the street of the Hospital of St. Mary. The church on the north side of the Wall was demolished, and the site became a a carpenter’s yard (Stow 1598, sig. Q5v).St. Alphage is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Andrew by the Wardrobe is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Andrew Holborn
St. Andrew Holborn was a parish church in Farringdon Without Ward, located on Holborn street between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane. It is located on the Agas map and is labelled asS. Andrews.
According to Stow, there was a grammar school, as well a monument dedicated to Lord Thomas Wriothesley either within or nearby St. Andrew Holborn. The church was first mentioned in Charter of King Edgar in 951. This medieval church was rebuilt in 1632 and managed to escape damage caused by the Great Fire. Christopher Wren rebuilt the church in 1684 making itthe largest of his parish churches, measuring 32 by 19 meters and costing £9,000
(Weinreb and Hibbert 741).St. Andrew Holborn is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Andrew Hubbard is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Andrew Undershaft
St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of John Stow.St. Andrew Undershaft is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Anne and St. Agnes is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Anne Blackfriars is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Antholin is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Anthony’s Hospital
St. Anthony’s Hospital was associated with the parish of St. Benet Fink and was on the opposite side of Threadneedle Street from the church of the parish, St. Benet Fink. According to Stow, Henry III granted the construction of a synagogue in this space. The building was constructed for that purpose in 1231, but, as Stow writes,the christians obtayned of the king that it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady, and since an Hospital being there builded, was called S. Anthonies in London
(Stow 1598, sig. K8v). The hospital consisted of a church, almsnouse, and school.St. Anthony’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Audoen
Harben notes St. Audoen sits at the north corner of Warwick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Harben).St. Audoen is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Augustine (Watling Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Augustine Papey
St Augustine Papey was a church on the south side of the city wall and opposite the north end of St. Mary Axe Street. The church dated from the twelfth century and in 1442 a fraternity of brothers was installed (Harben). The church and brotherhood were suppressed during the Reformation and Stow tells us the church was pulled down and houses built on the site (Stow).St. Augustine Papey is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bartholomew by the Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bartholomew the Great
St. Bartholomew the Great was a church in Farringdon Without Ward on the south side of Long Lane, Smithfield. It was made a parish church at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was declared a gift to the citizens of Londonfor relieving of the Poore
in 1546 (Stow 1633, sig. 2N5r). Under Mary I, the site and building were given to the Dominican order to be used as Blackfriars, St. Bartholomew’s before being restored under Elizabeth I.St. Bartholomew the Great is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bartholomew the Less
St. Bartholomew the Less, formerly the chapel of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, was refounded as a parish church in 1547. It has been on its present site in Smithfield since 1184. John Lyly and Thomas Bodley are buried in the church.St. Bartholomew the Less is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bartolomew’s Priory
A priory of Augustinian canons once encompassing St. Bartholomew the Great, St. Bartholomew the Less, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dissolved by Henry VIII.St. Bartolomew’s Priory is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Benet (Paul’s Wharf) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Benet Fink is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Benet Gracechurch is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Benet Sherehog is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Botolph (Aldersgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Botolph (Aldgate)
St. Botolph, Aldgate was a parish church near Aldgate at the junction of Aldgate Street and Houndsditch. It was located in Portsoken Ward on the north side of Aldgate Street. Stow notes that theChurch hath beene lately new builded at the speciall charges of the Priors of the holy Trinitie
before the Priory was dissolved in 1531 (Stow).St. Botolph (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Botolph (Billingsgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Botolph without Bishopsgate
St. Botolph without Bishopsgate stood on the west side of Bishopsgate Street north of Bishopsgate. It was in Bishopsgate Ward. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate is featured on the Agas map, south of Bethlehem Hospital and west of Houndsditch Street. It is labelledS. Buttolphes.
St. Botolph without Bishopsgate is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bride is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Christopher le Stocks
St. Christopher le Stocks was originally built on Threadneedle Street on the banks of Walbrook before 1225, andwas dedicated to the patron saint of watermen
(Weinreb and Hibbert 751). The church has been known by many names, which includeSt. Christopher upon Cornhull,
St. Christopher in Bradestrete,
andSt. Christopher near le Shambles
(Harben; BHO). Since the 14th century, the church has been known as some variant of St. Christopher le Stocks, which derives from its proximity to the Stocks Market. The church is not labelled, but is identifiable, on the Agas map.St. Christopher le Stocks is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Clement Danes is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Clement, Eastcheap is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dionis Backchurch is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan in the East is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan in the West is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan’s (Stepney)
East of the Spital Fields, also known as Stebanheath.St. Dunstan’s (Stepney) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Edmund (Lombard Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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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 asmall Parish Church
(Stow), is located on the Agas map northwest ofS. Elen
and immediately east of thegate
in theBusshopp gate Streate
label.St. Ethelburga is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Faith Under St. Paul’s is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Gabriel Fenchurch
The church is visible on the Agas map along Fenchurch Street. Before the 16th century, St. Gabriel Fenchurch was known as St. Mary Fenchurch. After being burnt in the Fire, it was not rebuilt (Carlin and Belcher).St. Gabriel Fenchurch is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. George
St. George Church was on Botolph Lane in Billingsgate Ward. The church dates back at least to 1193 (Carlin and Belcher). It was destroyed in the Great Fire, then rebuilt by 1674, and finally demolished in 1904 (Harben).St. George is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. George Southwark
St. George Southwark was located adjacent to Suffolk House, just south of the area depicted on the Agas map (Stow 1598, sig. Y8r). While there is no mention of the church in the 1086 Domesday Book, Stow notes that St. George Southwark was gifted to the Bermondsey Abbey by Thomas Arden and his son in 1122 (Stow 1598, sig. Y8v). As a result, St. George Southwark was probably constructed at the beginning of the twelfth century (Darlington).St. George Southwark is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Giles (Cripplegate)
For information about St. Giles, Cripplegate, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on St. Giles, Cripplegate.St. Giles (Cripplegate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Giles in the Fields
St. Giles in the Fields was a hospital and parish church. It is marked near the western edge of the Agas map with the labelS. Gyles in the Fyeld.
According to Stow, St. Giles in the Fields was founded as a leprosy house by Matilda of Scotland during the reign of Henry I. The hospital was eventually suppressed by Henry VIII (Stow 1598, sig. 2D6v).St. Giles in the Fields is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Gregory by St. Paul’s is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate)
St. Helen’s was a priory of Benedictine nuns located in Bishopsgate Ward between St. Mary Axe Street and Bishopsgate Street. St. Helen’s is visible on the Agas map with the labelS. Elen
written in the churchyard. Stow and Harben inform us that the priory was set up in 1212 by William Basing, the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral (Stow; Harben).St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James (Clerkenwell)
St. James, Clerkenwell was founded in 1100 (Sugden 281). It is marked on the Agas map asClarken Well.
St. James (Clerkenwell) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James Duke’s Place
According to Stow, St. James Duke’s Place was built on the grounds of Duke’s Place, which was converted from the Holy Trinity Priory after the priory’s dissolution in 1531.The 1633 edition of Stow recounts the reconstruction of a church upon the ruins of the priory alongside Duke’s Place. Approval for this reconstruction was granted by James I. The inscription indicates the church’s dedication to both James I and St. James, hence the nameSt. James Duke’s Place
(Stow 1633, sig. O1v-O3r).The buildings on the site were destroyed in the Great Fire and then rebuilt (Sugden 281). The church was active until 1874 (Sugden 281).St. James Duke’s Place is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James Garlickhithe is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James in the Wall Hermitage is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James’s (Westminster) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. John the Baptist (Walbrook) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. John the Evangelist is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. John Zachary is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. John’s of Jerusalem
St. John’s of Jerusalem provided housing and care for pilgrims and crusading knights. It was held by the Knights Hospitallers and dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII (Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r).St. John’s of Jerusalem is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine (Holy Trinity)
St. Katherine was an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108. It should not be confused with St. Katherine Cree or St. Katherine Coleman.St. Katherine (Holy Trinity) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine Coleman
St. Katherine Coleman was also called St. Katherine and All Saints and All Hallows Coleman Church (Harben). The church can be found on the Agas map, west of Northumberland House. It is labelled S. Katerin colmans.St. Katherine Coleman is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine Cree
Not to be confused with St. Katherine Church, St. Katherine Cree was an old parish church in Aldgate Ward located on the north side of Leadenhall Street between Aldgate and St. Mary Axe. Stow reports that the church was so old that one had to descend seven steps to enter it. He also adds that the church’s steeple and bell tower, built in 1504, were the most recent additions (Stow). St. Katherine Cree is also known by the names St. Katherine and the Blessed Trinity and St. Katherine Christ Church. The Church is drawn on the Agas map on the north side of Leadenhall Street, south of Holy Trinity Priory and east of the well in Aldgate Street. It has no label accompanying it.St. Katherine Cree is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine’s by the Tower
Founded by the Royal Foundation of St. Katherine, St. Katherine’s by the Tower was both a hopsital and a church. Its surrounding land became the precinct of St. Katherine’s by the Tower, which, according to Weinreb, was a precinct independent of Aldgate Ward (Weinreb 720, 778).St. Katherine’s by the Tower is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine’s Hospital
St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital founded in 1148. According to Stow, the hospital was founded by Queen Matilda. The hospital, the grounds of which contained a church, gardens, orchards, and residences, was at the southern end of St. Katherine’s Lane and north of the St. Katherine Steps, all of which is east of the Tower of London. Stow praised the choir of the hospital, noting how itwas not much inferior to that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral]
(Stow).St. Katherine’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Laurence (Jewry) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Laurence Poultney is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Laurence Poultney Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Leonard (Eastcheap) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Leonard (Foster Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Leonard (Shoreditch)
St. Leonard’s church—also known asThe Actors’ church
—is the burial place of many prominent early modern actors. The Burbages (James Burbage and his sons Richard Burbage and Cuthbert Burbage), Richard Cowley, William Sly, and many others are buried there (ShaLT).St. Leonard (Shoreditch) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Magnus
The church of St. Magnus the Martyr, believed to be founded some time in the 11th century, was on the south side of Thames Street just north of London Bridge. According to Stow, in its churchyardhaue béene buried many men of good worſhip, whoſe monumentes are now for the moſt part vtterly defaced,
including John Michell, mayor of London in the first part of the 15th century (Stow 1598, sig. M4r). The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren (Wikipedia).St. Magnus is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret (Lothbury) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret (New Fish Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret (Southwark)
St. Margaret (Southwark) was a church in Southwark. The church was absorbed into the St. Saviour (Southwark) (Parish) during the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Howard and Godfrey). Stow also recalls this absorption (Stow 1598, sig. 2D6r). By Stow’s time, the site would hold the Southwark Counter (Stow 1598, sig. Y5v, Y7v). The church is not on the Agas map but would be just to the south of the map’s southernmost edge.St. Margaret (Southwark) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret (Westminster) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret Moses is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret Pattens is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin (Ludgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin (Vintry) is mentioned in the following documents:
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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.St. Martin Orgar is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin Outwich is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin Pomary is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin-in-the-Fields is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin’s le Grand is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary (Abchurch) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary (Aldermanbury) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary (Islington)
St. Mary, Islington is the parish church that gave its name to what is now the Borough of Islington. It is located to the north of the area that is accurately depicted on the Agas map, in the neighbourhood to which St. John’s Street leads. If it appears on the Agas map at all (which is unlikely), we would locate it somewhere in the village at the end of St. John’s Street, but this portion of the map is more of a landscape than a map of Islington.St. Mary (Islington) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary (Lambeth) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary (Newington)
St. Mary Newington was a church dedicated to The Virgin Mary located on the west side of St. Mary Newington Parish, just south of the area depicted on the Agas map (Noorthouck). Ida Darlington notes that the earliest mention of St. Mary Newington occurs in the Liber Feodorum orBook of Fees,
which mentions thatRoger de Susexx held the church of Niwetun of the gift of the Archbishop
in 1212. While very little is known about St. Mary Newington prior to the thirteenth century, a comprehensive record of the church’s rectors exists from 1212 onwards (Darlington).St. Mary (Newington) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Aldermary is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary at Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Axe
The church of St. Mary Axe was a church on the west side of St. Mary Axe Street in Lime Street Ward. Stow asserts the church’s full name and dedication wasS. Marie the virgine, Saint Vrsula, and the 11000. Virgins
and believed that its common name, St. Mary Axe, derived from a sign near the church’s east side (Stow). However, a document written during the reign of Henry VIII suggests a different history of its name. The church, dedicated to 11,000 martyred virgins, supposedly contained the three axes that were used in their executions (Harben).St. Mary Axe is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Bothaw is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Colechurch
St. Mary Colechurch, according to the 1520 map, was located at the intersection of Poultry and Old Jewry (A Map of Tudor London, 1520). Stow locates the church a little further east on Poultry at the south end of Conyhope Lane, a reference, perhaps, to the chapel by the same name identified on the map (Stow 1633, sig. 2A6r; A Map of Tudor London, 1520). St. Mary Colechurch does not appear on the Agas map; thus, we have added this location on the authority of Stow and the 1520 map and the location coordinates on the authority of the map (A Map of Tudor London, 1520).St. Mary Colechurch is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Le Bow is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary le Strand is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate)
St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate), is an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108. According to Stow, the church was begun by Siredus (Stow). It is not to be confused with the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen in the Guildhall, St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street or St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street.St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey)
St. Mary Magdalen was located near the south-east corner of Bermondsey Street next to Bermondsey Abbey and just south of the area depicted on the Agas map (Noorthouck). According to John Stow, St. Mary Magdalen was a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene that was built by the priors of Bermondsey Abbey (Stow 1598, sig. Z4v). H.E. Malden notes that the church was almost entirely rebuilt early in the seventeenth century (Malden).St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Magdalen (Milk Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Magdalen (Old Fish Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Magdalen (Southwark)
According to Stow, St. Mary Magdalen was originally a large chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, which was attached to St. Saviour. St. Mary Magdalen was founded by Peter des Roches during the thirteenth century and later became a parish church (Stow 1598, sig. Y7v). During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, St. Mary Magdalen and St. Margaret were absorbed into the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark. The location that previously held St. Mary Magdalen was incorporated into St. Saviour, the new parish church.St. Mary Magdalen (Southwark) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Mounthaw is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Rotherhithe is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Rounceval’s Hospital
According to Stow, St. Mary Rounceval’s Hospital was founded in the fifteenth year of Edward IV’s reign near Charing Cross. It was suppressed first under Henry V and then finally under Edward VI, after which the site was converted into tenements (Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r; Stow 1598, sig. E4r).St. Mary Rounceval’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Somerset is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Staining is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Whitechapel is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Woolchurch is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Woolnoth is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary-At-Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary-Le-Bow Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Matthew (Friday Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael (Aldgate)
St. Michael, Aldgate, was an old parish church that was absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108 along with the parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, Aldgate, and St. Katherine Cree. According to a papal bull written during the pontificate of Innocent III, it was located in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Priory (Harben).St. Michael (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael (Cornhill)
The parish church of St. Michael, Cornhill is located on the southern side of Cornhill Ward between Birchin Lane and Gracechurch Street. St. Michael, Cornhill was the parish church of John Stow and his family and is the final resting place for Stow’s great-grandparents. Weinreb notes that,the church has a long musical tradition, and is famous for its excellent acoustics
(Weinreb 799-800).St. Michael (Cornhill) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael (Crooked Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael (Panier Alley) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael (Queenhithe) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael (Wood Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael Bassishaw is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael le Querne is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Michael Paternoster Royal is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mildred (Bread Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mildred (Poultry)
According to Stow, the Parish Church of St. Mildred (Poultry) was built in 1457 on the bank of the Walbrook stream (Stow). The church sat on the corner of Poultry and Walbrook Street. The church was destroyedd in the Great Fire, then rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, and finally demolished in 1872 (Sugden, Carlin and Belcher).St. Mildred (Poultry) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Church was situated on the north side of St. Nicholas Shambles street in Farringdon Within Ward. The church was demolished amid Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries and was replaced by residential buildings (Stow 1633, sig. 2G2v).St. Nicholas is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Nicholas Acon
St. Nicholas Acon was located in Langbourn Ward, its parish extending into Candlewick Street Ward (Harben 437). While it was not depicted on the Agas map, Prockter and Taylor note that St. Nicholas Aconstood on the west side of St. Nicholas Lane towards the northern end
(Prockter and Taylor 51). According to Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay,Acons
is possibly derived fromHaakon,
the name of one of the benefactors (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 802).St. Nicholas Acon is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Nicholas Cole Abbey is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Nicholas Olave is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Olave (Hart Street)
The church of St. Olave, Hart Street is found on the south side of Hart Street and the northwest corner of Seething Lane in Tower Street Ward. It has been suggested that the church was founded and built before the Norman conquest of 1066 (Harben). Aside from mentioning the nobility buried in St. Olave’s, Stow is kind enough to describe the church asa proper parrish
(Stow). Samuel Pepys is buried in this church.St. Olave (Hart Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Olave (Old Jewry)
St. Olave, Old Jewry was a church located on the west side of Old Jewry in Coleman Street Ward close to its boundary with Cheap Ward (Harben). The 1520 map erroneously locates the church on the east side of Old Jewry (A Map of Tudor London, 1520). It is labelledSt Olave, Jewry
on Carlin and Belcher’s 1270 map of London (Carlin and Belcher) andSt Olave
on the 1520 map (A Map of Tudor London, 1520).St. Olave (Old Jewry) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Olave (Silver Street)
According to Stow, St. Olave (Silver Street) was a church on the corner of Silver Street and Noble Street at the western edge of Aldersgate Ward. Stow writes that the church wasa small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments
(Stow 1598, sig. K3v). It was destroyed in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt (Carlin and Belcher 91).St. Olave (Silver Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Olave (Southwark)
St. Olave (Southwark) was a church dedicated to St. Olaf in Southwark on the bank of the Thames. It is marked on the Agas map with the labelS. Tovolles.
St. Olave (Southwark) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Pancras (Soper Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of London.St. Paul’s Cathedral is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s Churchyard
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).St. Paul’s Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter (Paul’s Wharf) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter Ad Vincula is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter le Poor
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 wassometime peraduenture a poore Parish
gave it the namele Poor
(Stow). Its name distinguished it from the other London churches dedicated to St. Peter. Stow mentions thatat this present there be many fayre houses, possessed by rich marchants and other
near the church, suggesting that the parish was no longer impoverished (Stow).St. Peter le Poor is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter upon Cornhill
St. Peter upon Cornhill stood at the highest point of the city in the south east of Cornhill Ward. According to a tablet preserved within the church, St. Peter upon Cornhill was founded by King Lucius and was the first Christian church in London (Noorthouk 606). This information was questioned by Stow, who admitted that he knowsnot by what authority
(Stow 1:194) the tablet was written.St. Peter upon Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter, Westcheap is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Saviour (Southwark)
St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least to 1106. It was originally known by the name St. Mary Overies, with Overies referring to its beingover
the Thames, that is, on its southern bank. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the church was rededicated and renamed St. Saviour (Sugden 335). St. Saviour (Southwark) is visible on the Agas map along New Rents street in Southwark. It is marked with the labelS. Mary Owber.
St. Saviour (Southwark) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Sepulchre is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Stephen (Coleman Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Stephen Walbrook is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Stephen’s (Chanon Row) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Stephen’s (Westminster Palace) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Swithin (London Stone) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Thomas Apostle is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Thomas Hospital
Accoridng to Stow, St. Thomas Hospital was founded as a church and almshouse in 1213 by Richard Dunton. It was located in Southwark, and Stow writes that it wasagainst the wall
of St. Saviour (Southwark), though is not labelled on the Agas Map. The religious hospital was dissolved in 1538 and then granted to the City of London in 1552. It thereafter functioned as aworkehouse for the poore and idle persons of the citie
(Stow 1598, sig. Z2v). Through this transition, Stow continues, the siteremaineth now as it was before, a parish church.
St. Thomas Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Vedast is mentioned in the following documents:
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Temple Church
A church used by both Middle and Inner Temples.Temple Church is mentioned in the following documents:
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey was a historically significant church, located on the bottom-left corner of the Agas map. Colloquially known asPoets’ Corner,
it is the final resting place of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, and many other notable authors; in 1740, a monument for William Shakespeare was erected in Westminster Abbey (ShaLT).Westminster Abbey is mentioned in the following documents:
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Whitefriars Church
According to Stow, Whitefriars Church was located on Fleetstreet (Stow 1:310). The church was occupied by the Whitefriars, a Carmelite order, until the closure of the monestaries in 1538.Whitefriars Church is mentioned in the following documents:
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We’d also like to acknowledge students who contributed to MoEML’s intranet predecessor at the University of Windsor between 1999 and 2003. When we redeveloped MoEML for the Internet in 2006, we were not able to include all of the student projects that had been written for courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and/or Writing Hypertext. Nonetheless, these students contributed materially to the conceptual development of the project.
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