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St Faith under St Paul’s in Castle Baynard Ward was an unusual parish within the City of London [2]. It had been physically removed in 1256[3] to allow for the eastern expansion of the Old St Paul's Cathedral [4]. Until the reign of Edward VI the parishioners worshipped at the end of the west crypt under St Paul’s Quire [5]. The well known diarist of the Long Parliament, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, attended the wedding of his father Paul and his step-mother, Lady Elizabeth Denton, in "St. Faith's under St. Paul's" on March 5, 1623, and Sir Simonds's younger sister Mary also married there on December 4, 1626 [6] The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London [7]- of which St Faith was one. From the reign of Edward VI until the Great Fire the parishioners, mostly booksellers in Paternoster Row [8], transferred to the Jesus Chapel, their separateness emphasised by a screen [9]. After this tragedy [10] the parish was united with St Augustine Watling Street [11], an arrangement that worked amicably well long after anyone who could have remembered the old cathedral had died [12], the name also being used in official records[13] and plans[14]. Partial records survive at IGI[15] and a drawing by Thomas Kerrich is preserved at The British Library while visitors to the rebuilt cathedral are still reminded of the association[16] during their tour.
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- ^ On St Paul's Choir School in New Change
- ^ The parish also extended into Farringdon Within “The City of London-a history” Borer,M.I.C.: New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801
- ^ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
- ^ "A dictionary of London : being notes topographical and historical relating to the streets and principal buildings in the City of London" Harbens, H.A : London, Herbert Jenkins Ltd,1918
- ^ “Vanished Churches of the City of London” Huelin,G London Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424
- ^ "The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes," London, 1845, vol. 1, pp. 229, 324
- ^ “The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London” Clark, O :London, Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society Vol 8, January 2006 ISSN: 0956-618X
- ^ “Diary of Samuel Pepys” Dover, Lewis Publications,1992 ISBN 048636675
- ^ “A Survey of London, Vol I” Stow,J (Originally,1598: this edn-London, A.Fullarton & Co,1890)
- ^ “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.
- ^ "The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922
- ^ 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 0900422300
- ^ 18th Century-old parish name still used in Court Proceedings
- ^ 1753 plan
- ^ Genealogical Web-Site
- ^ Modern Chapel
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