St Mary Bothaw: Difference between revisions

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The church stood in the [[Walbrook]] ward, in a narrow lane just to the south of Candlewick Street <ref name=jenk>{{cite book |last1=Jenkinson |first1=Wilberforce |title= London Churches Before the Great Fire |year=1917 |publisher=Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge |location=London |page=202}}</ref> (now Cannon Street).<ref>Seymour 1733, p.479</ref>

St Mary Bothaw was described by [[John Stow|Stow]] as a "proper church".<ref>{{cite book |last=Stow |first=John |title=Survey of London, Volume I |year=1890 |page=446 |orig-year=1598 |publisher=A.Fullarton & Co}}</ref> The dedication is generally derived from "boat-haw", meaning "boat house".<ref name=white>{{cite book |last1=White |first1=J.G. |title=The Churches and Chapels of Old London |url=https://archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft |year= 1901 |page=[https://archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft/page/116 116] }}</ref> The church was in existence by 1279, when William de Hamkynton is recorded as becoming rector following the death of Adam Lambyn.<ref name=ric/> It was one of the 13 "peculiars" within the [[City of London|City]] under the [[patronage]] of the dean and chapter of [[Canterbury Cathedral]].<ref name=huelin>{{cite book |last=Huelin |first=G. |title=Vanished Churches of the City of London |publisher=Guildhall Library Publications |year=1996 |isbn=0-900422-42-4}}</ref>

Along with the majority of parish churches in the Citycity, St Mary Bothaw was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. A Rebuilding Act was passed in 1670 and a committee set up under Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whinney |first1=Margaret |title=Wren |url=https://archive.org/details/wren00whin |year=1971 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=London |isbn=0-500-20112-9 |url-access=registration }}</ref> St Mary Bothaw was not amongst them. Instead the parish was united to that of [[St Swithin, London Stone]], and some of the materials from St Mary's were used to rebuild that church.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Ancient Records and Antiquities of the Parishes of St. Swithin, London Stone, and St. Mary Bothaw|last=White |first=JG|location= London|publisher=London & Middlesex Archaeological Society|year=1910}}</ref> The site was retained as a churchyard until the [[Cannon Street Station|Cannon Street Railway Station]] was built over it in the nineteenth century.<ref name=white/>