St Thomas the Apostle (London)

St Thomas the Apostle

Plaque opposite Cullum Street
Country England
Denomination Anglican

St Thomas the Apostle was 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 6 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 Thomas the Apostle in Vintry Ward[4] was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt.[5] The church site is marked by a plaque in Great St Thomas Apostle Street (see photo) near Mansion House tube station. First mentioned in the 12th Century [6] the parish was staunchly Royalist[7] in the years leading up to the Civil War [8] Following the fire it was united to St Mary Aldermary.[9] Partial records still survive at IGI.[10] Edmund Allen, Bishop of Rochester, is said to have buried in the church.

References

  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. ^ The parish extended into Cordwainer Ward "A Dictionary of London" 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 London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
  8. ^ “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C. : New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
  9. ^ "A Letter to the Parishioners of the united Parishes of St. Mary Aldermary, and St. Thomas the Apostle, in the City of London, on the non-payment of their Tithes" (1835) British Library Catalogue Ref: 003944680
  10. ^ Genealogical Web-Site

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