St Margaret, New Fish Street

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name = St Margaret, New Fish Street [ Name recorded as such in "Church of England,Parish of St. Margaret New Fish Street,Vestry and parish officers Annuity bonds with papers appertaining" Ms 11383 cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows,A.(Ed): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300]
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denomination = Roman Catholic, Anglican
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demolished_date = 1666
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address = The Monument, City of London "
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St Margaret, New Fish Street is a former church in the City of London. The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the "Parish Clerk’s Company", shows 97 parishes within the City of London. [ "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 ] By September 6th the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed. [ The "Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H: London, Bodley Head, 1922] 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. [ "Wren" Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Margaret New Fish Street where the Monument now stands [“Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations” Pearce,C.W.: London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd, 1909] in Bridge Ward was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt [ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659 ] . Variously called "St Margaret Bridge Street" and "St Margaret Fish Street Hill" ["A Dictionary of London" Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918] , it received many gifts from the pilgrims who passed it on the way to and from London Bridge [”Churches of the City of London”, Huelin,G London,Guildhall Library Publications, 1996ISBN 0900422424] . Following the fire it was united to St Magnus-the-Martyr. Partial records still survive at IGI. [ [http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/city-ch.html Genealogical Web-Site] ] .

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