St Margaret, New Fish Street, was a parish

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

in the

City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...

. The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerks' Company, shows 97 parishes within the

. By September 6 the city lay in ruins, 86 churches having been destroyed. In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of

Sir Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches ...

to decide which would be rebuilt. Fifty-one were chosen, but St Margaret New Fish Street where

the Monument The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern end of London Bridge. Commemorating the Great Fire of London, it stands at the j ...

now stands in Bridge Ward was one of the minority never to be rebuilt. Variously called ''St Margaret Bridge Street'' and ''St Margaret Fish Street Hill'', it received many gifts from the pilgrims who passed it on the way to and from

London Bridge Several bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It r ...

. Following the fire it was united to

St Magnus-the-Martyr St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, is a Church of England church and parish within the City of London. The church, which is located in Lower Thames Street near The Monument to the Great Fire of London, is part of the Diocese of London and unde ...

.''The London Encyclopaedia; Hibbert, C.; Weinreb, B..; Keay, J.: London: Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev. 1993, 2008)

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