St Benet Sherehog

St Benet Sherehog, additionally dedicated to St Osyth, was a medieval church built before the year 1111, situated at No. 1 Poultry in Cordwainer Ward, in the then wool-dealing district of the City of London. It was one of the 86 churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and it was not selected to be rebuilt when the 1670 Act of Parliament became law. It was united to St Stephen Walbrook in that year, but it continued to be represented by its own churchwarden. In 1685, a church report judged the unification a success. Nearly two hundred years later, however, this arrangement was still capable of causing tension. Some of its parish records survive,^[1] and they have been collated. Known as the “Lost Church of St Benet”,^[2] its site was excavated between 1994 and 1996, before the current office block was erected.

A shere hog is a castrated ram after its first shearing.

Bibliography

• Bannerman,W.B, RAOC Herlian Society 1919-20 “THE REGISTERS OF ST. STEPHEN, WALBROOK, AND ST. BENET SHEREHOG, LONDON”. Part I (Baptisms 1557 to 1790; Marriages 1557 to 1754; Burials 1557 to 1716) & Part II (Baptisms 1790 to 1860; Marriages 1754 to 1860; Burials 1716 to 1860) London, Harleian Society, 1920
• Betjeman, John, “Sovereign City of London Churches”, Andover: Pitkin, 1967 rpnt 1992 ISBN 0853725659
• Cobb,G “London city churches”: London, B T Batsford Ltd., 1977
• “Church of England, Parish of St. Stephen Walbrook:Visitation order issued by the Archdeacon of London to the united parishes, 1685”. - M0015630CL cited in “City of London Parish Registers Guide 4” Hallows,A.(Ed) - London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300.
• "A Dictionary of London" Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
• Huelin, G, “Vanished Churches of the City of London”, London,Guildhall Library Publications, 1996ISBN 0900422424
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• Miles, A., Tankard,D. White,W. “Burial at the site of the parish church of St Benet Sherehog before and after the Great Fire: excavations at 1 Poultry, City of London” London, Museum of London Archaeological Service, Monograph Series, 2007
• Reynolds, H, “The Churches of the City of London”, London, The Bodley Head, 1922
• ”Letter from Michael Gibbs, 33 Walbrook concerning the separateness of two church wardens’ duties” The Times, Thursday, Sep 21, 1843; pg. 5; Issue 18407; col E

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