The lost church of St Olave Silver Street stood at the cross roads of four streets – Falcon Street, Monkwell Street, Silver Street and Noble Street in an area known as Falcon Square. The church, the square and three of the streets have now all gone, leaving only Noble Street which runs alongside the old […]
The lost church of St Nicholas Olave is clearly visible on the Copperplate Map of 1555 and you can see it surrounded by many other churches in the later Agas map of 1560. This is a good illustration of just how many churches were stuffed into such a small area in the medieval city. This […]
If you walk down Nicholas Lane in the City you will find a blue plaque on the wall stating “Site of the parsonage of St Nicholas Acons where scientific life assurance began in 1762” . It commemorates the first office of Equitable Life, the world oldest mutual insurer, which pioneered scientific life assurance by basing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You are all probably familiar with the panoramic illustrations of the City of London from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries showing a forest of church spires. In those days, they were the tallest buildings so the view was filled with church towers and steeples. See below some examples by Hollar in 1647 and by Kipps […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are heading into Christmas season and that means presents! If you have friends or colleagues who work in the City of London and are drawing a blank when it comes to presents – secret Santa or otherwise – there here is an idea. As you may know, the Lost London Churches project has put […]
