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254:. The final service on Sunday 20 March 1831 had to be abandoned due to the effects of the building work. The Rector of St Michael preached a sermon the following Sunday at St Magnus lamenting the demolition of his church with its monuments and "the disturbance of the worship of his parishioners on the preceding Sabbath". A stained-glass window in the church of St Magnus commemorates the former parish. Some of the monuments in the demolished church are now located in 31: 309: 1297: 529: 430:"Memorial CXVII: Townsend's Lectureship Pages 363-364 Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist in the City of London. Originally published by Harrison, London, 1875" 327: 570: 239:
to endow a weekly lecture and a clerical post at the church. His widow Susannah (d. 1810) left further funds to support this work. In 1831, the bequest was transferred to the church of
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London Docklands Railway (City Extension) Act 1986 c. xxiii and Pastoral Scheme made by the Church Commissioners dated 9 April 1987. See
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The church was in existence by 1304. It was originally a small church, standing amongst the slaughter-yards of the butchers of
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tower, about 100 feet high, topped with a perforated parapet, with vases at its angles, and a spire—described by
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The church was demolished in 1831 to make way for the wider approaches needed for the rebuilt
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Foxes have holes – A personal memoir of St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge from 1984 to 1995
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called Wren's church "so plain as to be indescribable", noting only the Corinthian
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Part of the burial ground of St Michael, located between Fish Street Hill and
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Londinium Redivivium, or, an Ancient History and Modern Description of London
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Churches rebuilt after the Great Fire of London but since demolished
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List of churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished
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as "remarkably picturesque"—with clock, weather-vane and cross.
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In 1789, Thomas Townsend left a house and funds to the
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Its parish was united with that of 7: 1079:St John the Evangelist Friday Street 501:"Monuments of St Mark's Kennington" 293:, Irving hears about a picture of 14: 1288:1831 disestablishments in England 1074:St John the Baptist upon Walbrook 955:St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street 307: 273:. The remains were reburied at 78: 915:St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange 661:St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate 580:Churches in the City of London 394:Malcolm, James Peller (1807). 1: 1222:Hospital of St Thomas of Acre 771:St Michael, Paternoster Royal 490:, Hone, William: London, 1832 212:After its destruction in the 198:until 1408, and later to the 1217:Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate 1134:St Mary Magdalen Milk Street 1109:St Margaret, New Fish Street 851:St Augustine, Watling Street 796:St Sepulchre-without-Newgate 256:St Mark's Church, Kennington 611:Dutch Church, Austin Friars 162:. 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London
United Kingdom
Denomination
Church of England
Architect(s)
Christopher Wren
Style
Baroque
Coordinates
51°30′39″N 0°05′14″W / 51.51070°N 0.087280°W / 51.51070; -0.087280
Candlewick ward
City of London
Great Fire of London
Christopher Wren
Eastcheap
John Lovekyn
Lord Mayor of London
William Walworth
Christ Church, Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Plague
Great Fire of London
James Peller Malcolm
reredos
Portland stone
James Elmes
Merchant Taylors Company
St Magnus the Martyr
London Bridge

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