St Faith under St Paul's in Castle Baynard Ward was an unusual parish within the

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. It originally had its own building to the east of St Paul's Cathedral, serving as a parish church for the residents of St Paul's Churchyard and

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, but this was removed in 1256 to allow for the eastern expansion of the Cathedral. The parishioners were instead given a space to worship within the cathedral crypt. 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. Until the reign of

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the parishioners worshipped at the end of the west crypt under St Paul’s Quire.

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, 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 From the reign of Edward VI until the Great Fire the parishioners, mostly booksellers in Paternoster Row, transferred to the Jesus Chapel, their separateness emphasised by a screen. After the destruction of the cathedral by the Great Fire in 1666, the parish was united with that of St Augustine Watling Street."The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922

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