St Laurence Pountney

St Laurence Pountney was a former church in the City of London.^[2]
The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London.^[3] By September 6 the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed.^[4] In 1667 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt.^[5] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Laurence Pountney in Candlewick Street ^[6] in Candlewick Ward was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt.^[7]. It was one of the first to perish^[8] and many felt it had been helped on its way^[9]. Following the fire it was united to St Mary Abchurch ^[10] and partial records still survive at IGI^[11].

Further reading

• ”History of the parish of St. Laurence Pountney, London : including, from documents hitherto unpublished, an account of Corpus Christi (or Pountney) College, in the said parish” Wilson, HB: London,C Rivington & Co,1831

• “St. Mary Abchurch and St. Laurence Pountney: a short account” Wright,GW: London, A.Fullarton & Co, 1904

• ”Sir John de Pulteney and his two residences in London, Cold Harbour and the manor of the rose, together with a few remarks on the parish of St. Lawrence Poultney”N London, Archaeologia Vol.57 part 2^[12], 1901

References

1. ^ Sometimes referrd to as St Laurence, Candlewick Street Gift of a tenement in the parish of "St Laurence of Candelwikstret"To Hugh Martyn M0037796CL cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows,A.(Ed): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300
2. ^ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
3. ^ "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
4. ^ The "Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H: London, Bodley Head, 1922
5. ^ "Wren" Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129
6. ^ where Laurence Pountney Hill now stands “Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations” Pearce,C.W.: London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd, 1909
7. ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
8. ^ "Pepys: the unequalled self" Tomalin,C: London, Viking, 2002 ISBN 0670885681
9. ^ ”Churches of the City of London”, Huelin,G London,Guildhall Library Publications, 1996ISBN 0900422424
10. ^ "A Dictionary of London" Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
11. ^ Genealogical Web-Site
12. ^ p.257-84