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 "

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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 St Augustine, Watling Street, was an Anglican church which stood just to the east of St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. First recorded in the 12th century, it was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt to the designs o ...

."The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922

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