St Martin Outwich

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St Martin Outwich
Building information
Town City of London
Country England
Client Roman Catholic Church
Date demolished 1874
Style Medieval architecture
St. Martin Olwich
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Denomination Roman Catholic
Contact particulars

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St Martin Outwich was a medieval parish church[1] in the City of London It was demolished in 1874 and its parish was combined with Great St Helen's, located between Bishopsgate and St Mary Axe. Eighteen monuments were moved into Greater St Helen's and there they remain before St Martin's was demolished[2].Pevsner found a portion of the churchyard in the corner of the garden of a nearby office block[3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mentioned in Pepys Diary "Samuel Pepys-The Shorter Pepys" Latham,R(Ed) p484: Harmondsworth,1985 ISBN 0140094180
  2. ^ Ann Saunders, The Art and Architecture of London: An Illustrated Guide (Oxford: Phaidon, 1984), 76.
  3. ^ "London:the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550

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