St Mildred, Poultry

St Mildred, Poultry

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St Mildred, Poultry [ [http://www.stmildreds.org.uk/church-history.php Explanation of dedication] ] [ [http://www.londonancestor.com/views/vc-mildp.htm Victorian Etching of church] ] was a church [ [http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/city-ch.html Details for genealogists] ] in the City of London beside the Walbrook stream [“Churches of the City of London” Reynolds, H: Bodley Head, London, 1922] on the north side of the Poultry at its junction with Mansion House Street in Cheap [ The mediaeval meaning of the word is market “Oxford English Dictionary Vol 2” p634 Murray, J(Ed): OUP, Oxford,1893] , one of the 25 wards of the City of London. The first church can be traced back to 1175, in the reign of Edward the Third [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=46758 British History on Line] ] and was largely rebuilt in 1450 [“Vanished churches of the City of London”, Huelin, G: Guildhall Library Publishing, London 1996 ISBN 0900422424 ] . Destroyed in the Great Fire of London it was rebuilt during 1670-1676 by Christopher Wren [ [http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/personal-page/james/phd/wren/type.html Wren Enthusiasts web-site] ] and subsumed St Mary Colechurch [ [http://www.mercers.co.uk/netbuildpro/process/243/StAndrewbytheWardrobeLondon.php Benefice details] ] . In 1871 it was sold for development [ “History of the church of St Mildred the Virgin in Poultry in the City of London”: John Russell Smith,London,1872] and demolished the following year, uniting with St Olave Old Jewry and when that too ceased to a viable parish, St Margaret Lothbury [ Papers relating to the proposed union of the rectory of St Margaret Lothbury MS 08905 cited in “City of London Parish Registers Guide 4” Hallows,A.(Ed) - London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300 . ] . Many of its records survive and have been catalogued [ [http://www.originsnetwork.com/help/aboutbo-blb-clb.htm Cataloguing details] ] .

St Mildred in the Poultry was the burial place of the writer Thomas Tusser. Some description of the church and its monuments is given in John Stow's "Survey of London". [W. J. Thoms (ed.), "A Survey of London written in the year 1598, by John Stow" (based on 1798 edition), (Chatto and Windus, London 1876), pp. 98-99.]

A City Corporation Plaque commemorates the site [See below]

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  • St Mildred, Bread Street — Infobox church name = St. Mildred, Bread Street fullname = color = imagesize = caption = Victorian etching of the church landscape = denomination = Roman Catholic, Anglican diocese = parish = division = subdivision = founded date = founder =… …   Wikipedia

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  • St Mary Colechurch — Infobox church name = St Mary Colechurch fullname = color = imagesize = caption = Current picture of site landscape = denomination = Roman Catholic, Anglican diocese = parish = division = subdivision = founded date = founder = architect = style …   Wikipedia

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  • The Walbrook —    A stream of some size and importance which flowed through the centre of the City from north to south. In course of time it was filled up and eventually built over.    The City Records and Stow s Survey, together with the investigations made at …   Dictionary of London

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