St Mary Mounthaw

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St. Mary Mounthaw
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Denomination Anglican
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Address London
Country United Kingdom

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A former church in the City of London.
The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London.[1] By September 6th the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed.[2] In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt.[3] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Mary Mounthaw to the west of Old Fish Street Hill in Queenhithe Ward[4] was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt.[5] Built as a private family chapel [6]the parish had strong connections with the Diocese of Hereford whose Bishop used it as a London base [7]-one of whom John Skypp, personal chaplain to (and champion of [8]) Anne Boleyn was buried in the churchyard.[9] Following the fire it was united to St Mary Somerset and partial records still survive at IGI.[10].

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  1. ^ "The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London" Clark, O :London, Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society Vol 8, January 2006 ISSN: 0956-618X
  2. ^ The "Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H: London, Bodley Head, 1922
  3. ^ "Wren" Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129
  4. ^ Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
  5. ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
  6. ^ ”Vanished Churches of the City of London” Huelin,G London Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424
  7. ^ “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C. : New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
  8. ^ D. G. Newcombe, ‘Skip, John (d. 1552)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 14 April 2008
  9. ^ “The register of St Mary Mounthaw” Bannerman, W.B: London, Harleian Society, 1928
  10. ^ Genealogical Web-Site

51°30′37″N, 0°5′46″WCoordinates: 51°30′37″N, 0°5′46″W

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