St Michael-le-Querne

St Michael-le-Querne
The church in 1585
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Anglican, originally Roman Catholic

Parish boundary mark on wall of St Paul's Choir School

Current photo of site

St Michael-le-Querne, also called St Michael ad Bladum, was a parish church in the Farringdon Within Ward in the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt.

History

The church stood immediately to the north east of Paternoster Row ^[1] in Farringdon Within Ward.^[2] Its dedication derives from a 12th-century reference^[3] to its proximity to a corn market.^[4] It was in existence by 1181, when it was recorded in a survey of land and churches belonging to St Paul's Cathedral.^[4] St Michael's was rebuilt in 1430, the City having given small strips of land on the north and east sides to allow for its enlargement, and 'repaired and beautified' in 1617.^[4]

The antiquarian John Leland, who died in 1552, was buried in the church.^[4]

Destruction

Along with the majority of the parish churches in the City, St Michael-le-Querne was destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666. A Rebuilding Act was passed in 1670 and a committee set up under Sir Christopher Wren,^[5] decided to rebuild 51 of the churches. St Michael's was not among them. Instead the parish was united with that of St Vedast Foster Lane. The site of the church was cleared to allow for the widening of Cheapside, although Richard Newcourt noted that "some small part of one Corner of the Steeple, was for Ornament and Uniformity, added to the Houses there built."^[4]

Partial records still survive at IGI.^[6]

References

↑ Pearce,C.W. (1909). Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations. London: Winthrop Rogers Ltd.
↑ Betjeman, John (1967). The City of London Churches. Andover: Pitkin. ISBN 0-85372-565-9.
↑ Hibbert,C; Weinreb,D; Keay,J (1983). The London Encyclopaedia (revised 1993,2008 ed.). London: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
1 2 3 4 5 Newcourt, Richard (1708). Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense. London. pp. 488–90.
↑ Whinney, Margaret (1971). Wren. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20112-9.
↑ Genealogical Web-Site

51°30′46″N 0°5′51″W / 51.51278°N 0.09750°W / 51.51278; -0.09750Coordinates: 51°30′46″N 0°5′51″W / 51.51278°N 0.09750°W / 51.51278; -0.09750

Churches in the City of London

Existing churches	All Hallows-by-the-Tower All Hallows-on-the-Wall City Temple Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe St Andrew, Holborn St Andrew Undershaft St Anne and St Agnes St Bartholomew-the-Great St Bartholomew-the-Less St Benet, Paul's Wharf St Botolph, Aldersgate St Botolph, Aldgate St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate St Bride, Fleet Street St Clement, Eastcheap St Dunstan-in-the-West St Edmund, King and Martyr St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate St Giles, Cripplegate St Helen, Bishopsgate St James, Garlickhythe St Katharine Cree St Lawrence Jewry St Magnus the Martyr St Margaret Lothbury St Margaret Pattens St Martin, Ludgate St Mary Abchurch St Mary Aldermary St Mary Moorfields St Mary Woolnoth St Mary-at-Hill St Mary-le-Bow St Michael, Cornhill St Michael, Paternoster Royal St Nicholas, Cole Abbey St Olave, Hart Street St Paul's Cathedral St Peter upon Cornhill St Sepulchre-without-Newgate St Stephen Walbrook St Vedast alias Foster Temple Church

Churches of which only the tower remains	All Hallows, Staining Christ Church, Greyfriars St Alban, Wood Street St Alphage London Wall St Augustine, Watling Street St Dunstan-in-the-East St Martin Orgar St Mary Somerset St Olave, Old Jewry

Churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished	All Hallows Bread Street All Hallows Lombard Street All-Hallows-the-Great St Antholin, Budge Row St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange St Benet Fink St Benet Gracechurch St Christopher le Stocks St Dionis Backchurch St George Botolph Lane St Katherine Coleman St Mary Aldermanbury St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street St Matthew Friday Street St Michael Bassishaw St Michael, Crooked Lane St Michael Queenhithe St Michael-le-Querne St Michael Wood Street St Mildred, Bread Street St Mildred, Poultry St Stephen Coleman Street St Swithin, London Stone

Churches destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt	All Hallows Honey Lane All-Hallows-the-Less Holy Trinity the Less St Andrew Hubbard St Ann Blackfriars St Benet Sherehog St Botolph Billingsgate St Faith under St Paul's St Gabriel Fenchurch St Gregory by St Paul's St John the Baptist upon Walbrook St John the Evangelist Friday Street St John Zachary St Laurence Pountney St Leonard, Eastcheap St Leonard, Foster Lane St Margaret Moses St Margaret, New Fish Street St Martin Pomary St Martin Vintry St Mary Bothaw St Mary Colechurch St Mary Magdalen Milk Street St Mary Mounthaw St Mary Staining St Mary Woolchurch Haw St Michael-le-Querne St Nicholas Acons St Nicholas Olave St Olave, Silver Street St Pancras, Soper Lane St Peter, Paul's Wharf St Peter, Westcheap St Thomas the Apostle

Other former churches	College of Minor Canons Holy Trinity Gough Square Hospital of St Thomas of Acre Old St Paul's Cathedral St Audoen within Newgate St Augustine Papey St James Duke's Place St Martin Outwich St Mary Axe St Nicholas Shambles St Peter le Poer

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St Michael-le-Querne

History

Destruction

References

Further reading