St Margaret Moses

St Margaret Moses was a parish church in Little Friday Street ^[1] in the Bread Street Ward of the City of London.^[2]. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt.

History

This church was founded by Robert Fitzwalter who gave its patronage to the Priory of St. Faith, in Horsham, Norfolk in 1105. It later became the property of the crown.^[3] The parish's name is thought to come from an early benefactor named Moyses.^[4]

In 1550 the incumbent was the protestant martyr John Rogers^[5]

St Margaret Moses was one of 86 parish churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666.^[6] 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.^[7] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Margaret Moses was not among them.^[8] Instead the parish was united to that of St Mildred, Bread Street.^[9]

References

1. ^ Known previously as Pissinge Alley-"A Dictionary of London" Harben, H.: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
2. ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
3. ^ White, J.G. (1901). The Churches and Chapels of Old London. London. pp. 152–8. http://www.archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft. 
4. ^ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
5. ^ “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C. : New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
6. ^ "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
7. ^ "Wren" Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129
8. ^ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659
9. ^ “The registers of St Mildred, Bread Street and St Margaret Moses” Bannerman, W.B: London, Harleian Society, 1912