St Mary Staining
St. Mary Staining was a parish church in Oat Lane,[1] northeast of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London. First recorded in the 12th century, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.
| St. Mary Staining | |
|---|---|
 Image of the current site | |
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| Location | Oat Lane, City of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Architecture | |
| Years built | 10th century |
| Demolished | 1666 |
History
The first reference to it is to "Ecclesia de Staningehage" in 1189, probably deriving from a family from Staines holding land in the area of the church.[2] It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.[3] Its parish was united to St. Michael Wood Street in 1670,.[4] and later to St. Alban Wood Street in 1894, and finally St. Vedast Foster Lane in 1954.
Nikolaus Pevsner found a "few battered tombstones" in nearby Oat Lane.[5] Since 1965 its site has been a City of London Corporation garden, containing a historic tree; an adjacent office block was built semi-circular so as not to damage it.
Notes
- "London:the City Churches” Pevsner,N/Bradley,S New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0-300-09655-0
- Gordon Huelin in his "Vanished Churches of the City of London" (London, Guildhall Library Publishing,1996 ISBN 0-900422-42-4) gives two further possibilities: that it was named after the painter stainers who lived in the area in medieval times or that the name derives From the Saxon word for "stone".
- Cobb, G. (1942). The Old Churches of London. London: Batsford.
- Hibbert,C; Weinreb,D; Keay,J (1983 (rev 1993,2008)). "The London Encyclopaedia". London: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - Pevsner, Nikolaus; Bradley, Simon (1998). London:the City Churche. New Haven: Yale. ISBN 0-300-09655-0.
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