The lost church of St Michael le Querne stood at the north east corner of St Pauls churchyard, near Paternoster Row and Panyer Alley, roughly where St Pauls tube station is now. The word “querne” means a handmill for grinding wheat and the church was close to the corn market – part of the great […]
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St Mary Mounthaw
The little church of St Mary Mounthaw stood halfway up Old Fish Street Hill (now Lambeth Hill), a mere 50 yards away from four other churches: St Nicholas Cole Abbey, St Mary Somerset, St Peter Pauls Wharf and St Nicholas Olave. You can see their relative positions on the parish map and the map from […]
St Margaret New Fish Street
This lost church was dedicated to St. Margaret the Virgin of Antioch and stood on the corner of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill. There were two fish markets in the city in medieval times – one near St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street and St Paul’s in the west and one just up the […]
St Margaret Moses
The lost church of St Margaret Moses is one of the most elusive when it comes to tracing remains. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the parish was united with St Mildred Bread Street. However, that church was destroyed by bombs in World War 2, so the parishes of […]
St Leonard Foster Lane
The lost church of St Leonard Foster Lane originally belonged to the College of St Martin le Grand. The Dean and canons of St Martins used to worship at the altar of St Leonard inside that collegiate church but then built the separate small church of St Leonard in their courtyard in 13th century. It […]