Month: July 2023

St Gregory by St Pauls – as the name suggests –  was a parish church right next to Old St Pauls Cathedral. There is some uncertainty as to what it looked like. The Agas map from 1555 shows a traditional square towered church building – but many other churches on the map look exactly the […]

The lost church of Saint Gabriel Fenchurch is unusual as it has had three different names in the past.  The earliest reference is from the 13th century under the name  All Hallows Fenchurch, but between the 13th and 16th century, it seems to have been called St Mary Fenchurch and it is not until 1526 […]

The church of St Faith was originally a separate building from St Paul’s cathedral and was the parish church the stationers who lived in St Pauls churchyard and for the residents of the nearby street of Paternoster Row. The dedication is to St. Faith, the virgin martyr of Aquitaine, who suffered martyrdom in the time […]