St Martin Vintry

St Martin Vintry was a parish church in the Vintry ward of the City of London, England. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and never rebuilt.[1]

St Martin Vintry
Current photo of site
DenominationAnglican
Architecture
Demolished1666

History

The church stood at what is now the junction of Queen Street and Upper Thames Street just north of Southwark Bridge.[2] It was rebuilt in 1306, the choir at the cost of Queen Margaret. The Vintners Company had an Altar in the church dedicated to St. Martin, who was their patron saint.[3]

St Martin Vintry was one of 86 parish churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London. 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.[4] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Martin Vintry was not among them.[5] Instead its parish was united with that of St Michael Paternoster Royal.

References
  1. The London Encyclopaedia Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
  2. Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations Pearce, C.W.: London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd, 1909
  3. White, J.G. (1901). The Churches and Chapels of Old London. London. pp. 110–1.
  4. Wren Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971. ISBN 0-500-20112-9.
  5. The City of London Churches Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0-85372-565-9

Further reading
  • Transcripts of parish registers, vol. 61 (St Martin in the Vintry, 1613–1754). Challen, W. H.London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1927.


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