St Martin Pomary

St Martin Pomary^[2] was a church in the City of London.^[3]

The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London.^[4] By September 6, following the Great Fire, the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed.^[5] 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.^[6] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Martin Pomary on the east side of Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside ^[7] in Cheap Ward was one of the minority never to be rebuilt.^[8] Its dedication derives from a Latin reference to it being “an open space near a boundary wall" ^[9]. Its patronage was originally in the hands of the Prior of St Bartholomew-the-Great ^[10], but by 1547 it was a discrete parish confident enough to remove its crucifix^[11] and replace it with the Royal Arms. In 1627 much of the north wall had to be rebuilt^[12] but following the fire it was united to St Olave Jewry (part of whose churchyard it shared)^[13].

References

1. ^ On wall of Dauntsey House in Frederick Place (which backs onto the east side of Ironmonger Lane)
2. ^ Also known as St Martin Iremoner
3. ^ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert, C.; Weinreb, D.; Keay, J.: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
4. ^ "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
5. ^ The "Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H: London, Bodley Head, 1922
6. ^ "Wren" Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129
7. ^ “Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations” Pearce,C.W.: London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd, 1909
8. ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
9. ^ "A Dictionary of London" Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
10. ^ Huelin, G, “Vanished Churches of the City of London”, London,Guildhall Library Publications, 1996ISBN 0900422424
11. ^ ”Vanished Churches of the City of London” Huelin,G London Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424
12. ^ Huelin (ibid)
13. ^ Plan of the church and church yards of St. Olave Jewry and St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane. Scale 1":12 feet / taken and drawn in July 1809 by Jno. Baker, archt.. 445:OLA cited in “City of London Parish Registers Guide 4” Hallows,A.(Ed) - London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300