St John Clerkenwell

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St John Clerkenwell is a parish church in Clerkenwell, London. It is housed in a rebuild of the old Priory church of Clerkenwell Priory (its crypts are those of the Priory church), purchased by the fifty new churches.

It was restored and improved by a Mr. Griffith in 1845. In 1878 one of the large painted windows at the east end still survived, as did remains of Prior Docwra's church in the south and east walls, and capitals and rib mouldings of the former church underpinned the pews. In 1868 its living was a rectory valued £260, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. It was rebuilt after bomb damage in the Blitz.

[edit] Bibliography

C. R. B King, "The Crypt of the Priory Church of St. John, at Clerkenwell", Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1898, Vol. 21, 168-174