St Peter, Paul's Wharf, was a
Church of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ca ...
in the
City of London. It was destroyed in the
Great Fire in 1666.
First mentioned in the 12th century,
it stood to the north of
Upper Thames Street
Thames Street, divided into Lower and Upper Thames Street, is a road in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London. It forms part of the busy A3211 route (prior to being rebuilt as a major thoroughfare in the late 1960s, i ...
in
Queenhithe Ward. The parish was defiant in continuing to use the
Book of Common Prayer during the
Civil War.
St Peter's was, along with most of the City's other
parish churches, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666. A Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under
Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt. Fifty-one were chosen, but St Peter Paul's Wharf was not among them.
Following the fire, the parish was united with that of
St Benet Paul's Wharf.
["The registers of St. Benet and St. Peter, Paul's Wharf, London" Willioghby, A.: London, Harleian Society, 1911]
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Churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London and not rebuilt
Churches in the City of London
10th-century establishments in England
1666 disestablishments in England
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