St Faith under St Paul's

St Faith under St Paul's in Castle Baynard Ward was an unusual parish within the City of London.[2] The church was physically removed in 1256[3] to allow for the eastern expansion of Old St Paul's Cathedral.[4][5]

St Faith under St Paul's
LocationCastle Baynard, London
CountryUnited Kingdom
DenominationAnglican
Architecture
Years builtPre 11th century
Demolished1255
Parish boundary mark[1]

The parish appears as "St Faith within the monastery of St Paul's, London" in 1381, with mention of John Phelip, as a former parson.[6]

Until the reign of Edward VI the parishioners worshipped at the end of the west crypt under St Paul’s Quire.[7] Sir Simonds D'Ewes, the diarist, attended the wedding of his father Paul and his stepmother, Lady Elizabeth Denton, in "St. Faith's under St. Paul's" on 5 March 1623, and Sir Simonds's younger sister Mary also married there on 4 December 1626[8] The bills of mortality for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk's Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London, of which St Faith was one.[9] From the reign of Edward VI until the Great Fire the parishioners, mostly booksellers in Paternoster Row,[10] transferred to the Jesus Chapel, their separateness emphasised by a screen.[11]

After the Great Fire,[12] the parish was united with St Augustine Watling Street,[13] an arrangement that worked amicably well long after anyone who could have remembered the old cathedral had died,[14] the name also being used in official records.[15] and plans.[16] Partial records survive at IGI[17] and a drawing by Thomas Kerrich is preserved at the British Library while visitors to the rebuilt cathedral are still reminded of the association during their tour.[18]

Burials

References
  1. On St Paul's Cathedral School in New Change
  2. The parish also extended into Farringdon Within: Borer, M. I. C. (1978). The City of London: a history. New York: D. McKay Co. ISBN 0-09-461880-1.
  3. "Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, W. p55: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909
  4. Christopher, Ben; Hibbert, Weinreb (1983). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan. pp. 706–707. ISBN 0333325567.
  5. Harbens, H. A (1918). A Dictionary of London: being notes topographical and historical relating to the streets and principal buildings in the City of London. London: Herbert Jenkins.
  6. Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/483; year 1381, Term 4; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no483/483_0233.htm; 6th entry, William Phelip, brother & heir of John Phelip, formerly parson of St Faith, etc.
  7. Huelin, G. (1996). Vanished Churches of the City of London. London: Guildhall Library Publishing. ISBN 0-900422-42-4.
  8. "The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes," London, 1845, vol. 1, pp. 229, 324.
  9. Clark, O. (January 2006). "The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London". Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society. 8. ISSN 0956-618X.
  10. Diary of Samuel Pepys, Dover, Lewis Publications, 1992 ISBN 978-0-486-43667-8
  11. A Survey of London, Vol I Stow, J. (Originally, 1598: this edn-London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1890)
  12. The tombs, monuments, etc., visible in S. Paul's Cathedral (and S. Faith's beneath it) previous to its destruction by fire A.D. 1666 Major Payne Fisher (Blacker Morgan, G.B. Ed., 1855): London, Privately printed, 1684.
  13. "The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922
  14. Church of England, Parish of St. Augustine Watling Street. - Agreement between the churchwardens of both the parishes of St Augustine Watling Street and St Faith under St Paul’s, 1830. - M0017513CL cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows, A.(ed.): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0-900422-30-0
  15. 18th Century-old parish name still used in Court Proceedings
  16. 1753 plan
  17. Genealogical Web-Site Archived 2007-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
  18. Modern Chapel

51°30′46″N 0°5′46″W

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