St Christopher le Stocks

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address = Threadneedle Street, London
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St Christopher le Stocks was an historic church [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=63016&strquery=Christopher%20le%20Stocks#s8British History on-line] ] , situated on the south side of Threadneedle Street in Broad Street Ward, one of the 24 within the City of London, a self governing enclave in the capital city of England, now part of the United Kingdom. The earliest reference to the church is in 1282(Deacon, 1982). The dedication is disputed: Freshfield (1876) maintains it refers to the City Stocks, which at one time stood close to the church, but Huelin(1996) believes it to be a reference to the nearby Stock Exchange. Endowments were bequeathed in 1427 and 1506 [ [http://www.steeljam.dircon.co.uk/churches/londonchurchlocation.htm Church history] ] . Burnt in the Great Fire, and rebuilt by Wren in 1671 using much of the surviving material, it was the first of his churches to be completed (Amery,1988) at a cost of £2,098 12s 7d(Reynolds,1922). The church was demolished in 1781 to provide space for the extension of the Bank of England [ [http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/museum/walkthrough/1780.htm Bank of England Museum] ] and united with St Margaret Lothbury in 1781(Hallows,1954). This was done to prevent an attack at night from St Christopher’s roof(Griffiths,1997). The churchyard was also requisitioned in 1798, and now lies underneath the Bank’s Garden Court [ [http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current/houblon.htm Burial site of the Bank’s first Governor] ] . Partial records remain and are available for family history research [ [http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/city-ch.html Genealogical details] ] .
A parish boundary mark can be seen on the front wall of the Bank of England [See below]

Re-interment of human remains The remains of those interred in the church and the churchyard of St Christopher's were removed during development of the Bank of England in 1867 to Nunhead Cemetery in South East London. When the Bank underwent wholesale redevelopment in the 1930s, further relocations of interred remains were made to Nunhead in 1933.

The extant Parish Clerks Following the Blitz, the ecclesiastical parish of St Christopher le Stocks is now part of the United benefice of St Margaret, Lothbury "and" St Stephen, Coleman Street [http://www.stml.org.uk] . In common with all City of London parishes, St Christopher le Stocks has a serving Parish Clerk. St Christopher's Clerk (Stephen Plumb) is appointed by the Rector and Parochial Church Council of St Margaret, Lothbury. There are eight Parish Clerks in total serving at St Margaret, Lothbury, reflecting the eight united parishes.

Bibliography

*Amery,C “Wren’s London”: Luton, Lennard, 1988 ISBN 1852910097
*Deacon, J, “The Story of St Christopher-le-Stocks”, in The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, 52 76-78:London, Bank of England,1982 ISSN 0962-5970 2C(272819)
*Freshfield,E “Published parochial records of St Margaret Lothbury with St Christopher-le-Stocks and Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange”: London, Rixon & Arnold, 1876
*Griffiths,P “Secrecy and authority in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London” in The Historical Journal , 40: 925-951: Cambridge,Cambridge University Press,1997 ISSN 0018-246X 3E(007528)
*Hallows,A.(Ed) “City of London Parish Registers Guide 4” - M0023878CL( Papers relating to the unification of the Church of England Parishes of St. Margaret Lothbury and St Christopher Le Stocks,1782): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300
*Huelin, G “Vanished churches of the City of London”: London, Guildhall Library Publishing 1996ISBN 0900422424
*Reynolds, H “Churches of the City of London”: London, Bodley Head, 1922
*Woollacott. R., "The Victorian Catacombs at Nunhead": London, Friends of Nunhead Cemetery 2006 ISBN 0-9539194-6-3

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