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Commission for Building Fifty New Churches

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57:, with the purpose of building fifty new churches for the rapidly growing conurbation of London. It did not achieve its target, but did build a number of churches, which would become known as the 338: 323: 308: 206:. When the Commission was set up the duty was assigned to it. In 1718 the duty became part of general government revenues but was still used to fund the Commissioners' work. 54: 274: 328: 198:
The Commission was funded by a duty on coal coming into London. This tax was originally levied in 1670 to pay for the rebuilding of
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The Commissions for building fifty new churches: The minute books, 1711-27, a calendar
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City posts: the coal duties of the City of London and their boundary marks
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The Commission partly funded rebuilding of five churches:
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and the surroundings) was an organisation set up by
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Index

Queen Anne Churches
Commissioners' church
London
Act of Parliament
England
New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710
Nicholas Hawksmoor
John James
Thomas Archer
James Gibbs
Christ Church, Spitalfields
St Alfege Church, Greenwich
St Anne's Limehouse
St George's, Bloomsbury
St George in the East
St George's, Hanover Square
St John Horsleydown
St John's, Smith Square
St Luke Old Street
St Mary le Strand
St Mary Woolnoth
St Paul's, Deptford
St George Gravesend
St George the Martyr Southwark
St Giles in the Fields
St Mary Magdalen Woolwich
St Michael, Cornhill
St George the Martyr Holborn
St John Clerkenwell
St Paul's Cathedral

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