St Ann Blackfriars

St Ann Blackfriars

St Ann Churchyard in 2008
Denomination Anglican

St Ann Blackfriars was a London church of the seventeenth century, situated in the ward of Farringdon Within in Church Entry,[1] Carter Lane.[2] It was near the Blackfriars Theatre, a fact which displeased its congregation.[3] It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666.

Today, tiny parts of the churchyard are visible at Ireland Yard.[4][5]

History

It was a comparatively new church, consecrated in 1597,[6] and had been rebuilt from ruins left by the dissolution of the monasteries,[7] by public subscription.[8] It became a Puritan stronghold,[9] associated for 45 years with William Gouge,[10] and a place thoughtful Londoners made a point of visiting.[11] Fifty-one churches were chosen to be reconstructed, but Blackfriars was in the minority never to be rebuilt, and its parish was merged into that of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe.[12]

References

  1. ^ Site of church
  2. ^ "A Dictionary of London" Harben, H.: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
  3. ^ Church of England, Diocese of London. - Parish register transcripts of parishes in the City of London. 1639-40. - [A-St L], 1639. . - M0003091CL cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows,A.(Ed) : London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300
  4. ^ "London: the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0300096550
  5. ^ Picture of churchyard
  6. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050212065209/http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/9424/page8.html
  7. ^ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
  8. ^ "Vanished Churches of the City of London" Huelin,G London Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424
  9. ^ "The City of London-a history" Borer, M. I. C.: New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
  10. ^ David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (1997), p. 302.
  11. ^ "Samuel Pepys-The Shorter Pepys" Latham,R(Ed): Harmondsworth,1985 ISBN 0140094180
  12. ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659