St John the Baptist upon Walbrook was a parish

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in the

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. It stood in Walbrook Ward, with parts of the parish extending into

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Dowgate Dowgate, also referred to as ''Downgate'' and ''Downegate'', is a small ward in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London. The ward is bounded to the east by Swan Lane and Laurence Poutney Lane, to the south by the River Th ...

, and

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Wards. Of medieval origin, it was destroyed in the

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in 1666 and not rebuilt.

History

The church stood with its west end on the bank of the Walbrook, and its east end in Dowgate. It is first mentioned in the 12th Century. It was rebuilt and enlarged in 1412 and "re-edify'd and adorn'd" in 1621.

Destruction

Along with the majority of 97 parish churches in the

, St John the Baptist upon Walbrook was destroyed by the Great Fire in September 1666. In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under Sir

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to decide which would be rebuilt. St John the Baptist was not one of the 51 chosen;"The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) instead the parish was united to that of

St Antholin, Budge Row St Antholin, Budge Row, or St Antholin, Watling Street, was a church in the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, following its destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The 17th-century ...

, and the site retained as a graveyard. The Parish Registers of St John's were published along with those of St Antholin's by the

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in 1883.

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