St Michael, Cornhill, is a medieval parish church in the

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with pre-

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parochial foundation. It lies in the ward of Cornhill. The medieval structure was lost in the

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, and replaced by the present building, traditionally attributed to Sir

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. The upper parts of the tower are by

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. The church was embellished by Sir

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and Herbert Williams in the nineteenth century.

Early history

The church of St Michael, Cornhill is sited directly above the location of the western apse of the former London Roman basilica (built c. AD90-AD120). Although its walls are not aligned with the basilica, some of the church's foundations still sit directly on top of the roman foundations. St Peter upon Cornhill church and location above London Roman Forum

St Peter upon Cornhill church and location above London Roman Forum

The first reference to the church was in 1055, when Alnod the priest gifted it to the Abbey of Evesham, "Alnod sacerdos dedit ecclesiam, beati Michaelis in Cornhulle, London". The patronage remained in the possession of the Abbot and convent of Evesham until 1503, when it was settled on the

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. A new tower was built in 1421, possibly after a fire.

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described the church as "fair and beautiful, but since the surrender of their lands to

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, greatly blemished by the building of four tenements on the north side thereof, in the place of a green church-yard". On the south side of the church was a churchyard with what Stow calls a "proper cloister", with lodgings for choristers, and a pulpit cross, at which sermons were preached. These were maintained by Sir John Rudstone, after whose death in 1530 the choir was dissolved and the cross fell into decay. Churchwardens' accounts and other memoranda of the medieval and Tudor church are in print, and the parish registers from 1546 to 1754 are published by the

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. A folk tale, dating from the early 16th century, tells of a team of bellringers who once saw 'an ugly shapen sight' appear as they were ringing the bells during a storm. They fell unconscious, but later discovered scratch marks in the masonry. For years afterward these were pointed out as the 'Devil's clawmarks'.

Rebuilding after the Great Fire

St Michael, Cornhill Interior 1, London, UK - Diliff

The medieval church, except for the tower, was destroyed in the

in 1666; the present building was begun in 1672. The design is traditionally attributed to Sir

. However, the authors of the ''

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'' guide to the City churches believe Wren's office had no involvement with the rebuilding of the body of the church, the parish having dealt directly with the builders. The new church was 83 feet long and 67 feet wide, divided into nave and aisles by

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columns, with a groined ceiling. There was an organ at the west end, and a

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with paintings of

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and

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at the east. The walls,

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noted, did not form right angles, indicating the re-use of the medieval foundations. The fifteenth-century tower, having proved unstable, was demolished in 1704 by order of the archbishop. A replacement, 130 feet high, was completed in 1721. In contrast to the main body of the church it was built in a Gothic style, in imitation of that of

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. Construction had begun in 1715, with money from the coal fund. The designer of the lower stages was probably William Dickinson, working in Christopher Wren's office. Funds proved inadequate, and work stopped in 1717 with the tower half-completed. The tower was eventually completed in 1722 with the aid of a grant from the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, the upper stages being to the designs of its surveyor,

. The tower terminates in four elaborately panelled turrets, resembling those of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Repairs were made to the church in 1751, 1775, and 1790, the last two of which were done under the survey of George Wyatt. In the 1790 repairs, the south aisle windows and the east window were made circular; as well, a new pulpit, desk, altar rail, east window glass, and 12 new brass branches were added.

Victorian alterations

In the late 1850s, the Drapers' Company, motivated by legislation that would have forced them to hand certain funds over to the

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if they were not spent on St Michael's, decided to fund a lavish scheme of embellishment, and asked

to carry out the work. St Michael Cornhill Tympanum

Scott demolished a house that had stood against the tower, replacing it with an elaborate porch, built in the "Franco-Italian Gothic" style (1858–1860), facing towards Cornhill. It is decorated with carving by

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, including a high-relief tympanum sculpture depicting "St Michael disputing with Satan". Scott inserted Gothic tracery into the circular clerestory windows, and into the plain round-headed windows on the south side of the church. New side windows were created in the chancel, and an elaborate stone reredos, incorporating the paintings of Moses and Aaron by

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from its predecessor, was constructed in an Italian Gothic style. A contemporary account of the work explained that this was appropriate since "the classical feeling which pervades the Italian school of Gothic art enabled the architect to bring the classical features of the building into harmony with the Gothic treatment which our present sympathies demand". The chancel walls were lined with panels of coloured marble, up to the level of the top of the reredos columns, and richly painted above this point. It was said that Scott "proposes to brighten all the roof with colour... and he fuses the vaulting into something transitional between Pointed and Italian. And he inserts tracery in all the round-headed windows, and the great ugly stable-like circles of the clerestory become roses under his plastic hand." Stained glass by

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was installed, with a representation of Christ in Glory in the large circular east window. Its splays were enriched with inlaid and carved marble, with four heads in high relief enclosed in medallions. The other windows contained a series of stained glass images illustrating the life of Christ, with the crucifixion at the west end. Northern Entrance to St Michael, Cornhill in the City of London

Northern Entrance to St Michael, Cornhill in the City of London

A further campaign of medievalising decoration was carried out in the late 1860s by Herbert Williams, who had worked with Scott on the earlier scheme. Williams built a three-bay cloister-like passage, with plaster vaults, on the south side of the building, and in the body of the church added richly painted decoration to Wren's columns and capitals. The reredos was enriched with inlaid marble, and the chancel was given new white marble steps and a mosaic floor of Minton’s

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and tiles. In what the ''Building News'' described as a "startling novelty", a circular opening was cut in the vault of each aisle bay and filled with stained glass, and skylights installed above. Few original furnishings were retained in its Victorian re-imagining, but the 1672

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given by James Paul survived, although a new balustrade was added.

Recent history

A First World War memorial was unveiled beside the entrance to the church in 1920, featuring a bronze statue of St Michael by Richard Reginald Goulden. The memorial became a Grade II* listed building in December 2016. The church escaped serious damage during the Second World War, and was designated a Grade I

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on 4 January 1950. In 1960, the Victorian polychrome paintwork was replaced with a more restrained colour scheme of blue, gold and white. A new ring of twelve bells, cast by Taylors of Loughborough, was installed in the tower in April 2011. The church has one of the oldest sets of churchwarden's records in the City of London, which are now kept in the

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. The

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, the

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and the

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continue to be used in services. The church is a corporate member of the Prayer Book Society. The church vestry hosts the annual ward mote and polling station for the City of London ward of Cornhill. As a

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parish that rejects the

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/ leadership of women, the church receives

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from the

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(currently

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Rectors

*Sperling the Priest 1133 *John de Merham 1287 *William de Wyholakesford 1321–1322 *Henry de Makeseye 1330–1331 *John de Wendland ????-1345 *Thomas de Wallingford 1345 *Richard Savage 1351-1357/8 *Hugh de Denton 1366–1368 *Richard Mitford ???? – 1371 * Richard Atfelde 1371–1393 *John Haseley 1393–1400 *Thomas Whithede 1400–1407 *William Bright 1407–1414 *Peter Heynewick 1421–1426 *Henry Woodchurch 1426–1432 *

Thomas Lisieux Thomas Lisieux (died 1456) was a Canon of Windsor from 1435 to 1442 and Dean of St Paul’s from 1441 to 1456. Career He was appointed: *Senior Proctor, Oxford 1426 *Rector of St Michael, Cornhill 1433 - 1447 *Prebendary of Rugmere in St Paul� ...

1432–1447 *William Lyeff 1447–1454 *William Wytham 1454 *Thomas Bolton 1472–1474 *Henry Best 1474–1477 *Peter Hussye 1477–1482 *Martin Joynour 1482–1485 *John Moore 1485–1503 *John Wardroper 1503–1515 *Peter Drayton 1515–1517 *Rowland Phillips 1517–1538 *Edward Stepham 1538–1545 *John Willoughby 1545–1554 *John Philpot 1562/3-1567 *Richard Mathew 1567–1587 *William Ashbold 1587–1622 *George Carew 1622-1624/5 * William Brough 1625–1642 *Thomas Holl 1642/3-1645 *Anthony Harford 1645–1646 *John Wall 1646–1652 *Peter Vincke 1652–1660 *William Brough 1660–1664 *John Meriton 1664–1704 *Samuel Baker 1705–1749 *Arnold King 1749–1771 * Robert Poole Finch 1771–1784 *Arthur Dawes 1784–1793 *Thomas Robert Wrench 1793–1836 *Thomas William Wrench 1836–1875 *William Hunt 1875–1887 *Alfred Earle 1888–1896 *George Charles Bell 1896–1913 *John Henry Joshua Ellison 1913–1945 *George Frederick Saywell 1945–1956 *Norman Charles Stanley Motley 1956–1980 *John Scott 1981–1985 *David Burton Evans 1986–1996 *Gordon Reid 1997–1998 *

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1998–2012 *

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2014–2017 *Charles Skrine 2017-2021 The Parish Clerk is Mr Rupert Meacher. The patrons of the living are (and have been since 1503) the

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Notable parishioners

, author of ''A Survey of London'' (1598) *

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'', was born in a milliner's shop adjacent to St Michael's in 1716, and was baptised in the church. *

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, later organist of Westminster Abbey, was baptised in St Michael's. *Sir George Thalben-Ball, leading organist and choir director. *Sir Derek Pattinson, former general secretary to the

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. *

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, the feminist writer, was a member of the congregation for some years. * Douglas Murray, media personality.

Organ

St Michael, Cornhill Interior 2, London, UK - Diliff

The organ, which includes historic pipework by

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, Green, Robson, Bryceson, Hill and

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, and was in 2010 restored by

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, has been awarded a Historic Organ Certificate of Recognition by the

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List of organists

* Isaac Blackwell 1684 – 1699 *Walter Holt 1699 – 1704 *

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1704 – 1723 * Obadiah Shuttleworth 1723 – 1734 * Joseph Kelway 1734 – 1736 (afterward, organist of

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) *

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1736 – 1768 (also appointed

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in 1755 and organist at the

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in 1758) * Theodore Aylward Sr. 1769 – 1781 (

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1771, and organist of

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1788) * Richard John Samuel Stevens 1781 – 1810 *George William Arnull 1810 – 1849 * Richard Davidge Limpus 1849 – 1875 *Edward Henry Thorne 1875 – 1891 * Williamson John Reynolds 1891 – 1900 (afterward, organist of

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) * George Frederick Vincent 1900 – 1916 *

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1916 – 1966 *

Richard Popplewell Richard Popplewell LVO (18 October 1935 - 22 March 2016) was an English organist and composer who served at the Chapel Royal and St Michael's, Cornhill. Works His music was published by Banks. Choral * A vast cloud of love (words by Madeli ...

1966 – 1979 *Jonathan Rennert 1979 – current

List of assistant organists

*Morley Whitehead (afterward, assistant organist of High Kirk of St Giles, Edinburgh, then Organist of Morningside Parish Church, Edinburgh) *Andrew Lucas (afterward, sub-organist of

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, then Master of the Music of

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*James Cryer (afterward, organ scholar of

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*Adrian Lenthall (afterward, organ scholar of Westminster Abbey &

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*John Hatton (then a student of the

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) *Matthew Morley (currently assistant director of music, St Bride's, Fleet Street, London) *Lee Ward (currently director of music at

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) *Ross Cobb (director of music,

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and now director of Music,

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) *Alistair Reid (after a spell in the US, he is now assistant organist of

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) *Nigel Thomas (then a student of the Royal College of Music) *James Hills (currently director of music at

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) *Jonathan Bunney (director of music at

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, London) *Andrew Earis (currently director of music at

, London) *Duncan Ferguson (currently organist and master of the music of

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) *Robert Smith (currently director of music at

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, London) *Gregory Drott (currently director of music and organist at St. Stephen's, Gloucester Road)

Notes

External links

St Michael's website
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