Appendix No. 1: Schedule of Wren's City Churches

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 4, the City. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1929.

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'Appendix No. 1: Schedule of Wren's City Churches', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 4, the City, (London, 1929) pp. 199. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/london/vol4/p199 [accessed 20 April 2024]

APPENDIX No. 1.

Schedule of cost and dates of erection of the City-churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

(From the original book of accounts in the Bodleian Library, abstracted in Archaeologia Vol. LXVI.)

£ s. d.
1670–79 St. Olave Old Jewry (destroyed, except tower, 1888) 5580 4 10
1670–71 St. Dunstan in the East (re-built, except tower, 1817–18) 1075 18 2
1670–87 St. Michael Wood Street (destroyed 1894) 2554 12 11
1672–87 St. Stephen Walbrook 7652 13 8
1670–86 St. Mary Aldermanbury 5237 3 6
1671–81 St. Nicholas Cole Abbey 5042 6 11
1676–87 St. Michael Queenhithe (destroyed 1876) 4354 3 8
1676–87 S.S. Anne and Agnes 2448 0 10
1670–76 St. Mary at Hill 3980 12 3
1671–79 St. George Botolph Lane (destroyed 1903–4) 4509 4 10
1674–86 St. Bartholomew Exchange (destroyed 1841) 5077 1 1
1674–81 St. Stephen Coleman Street 4020 16 6
1676–82 St. Michael Bassishaw (destroyed 1899) 2822 17 1
1670–75 St. Christopher le Stocks (destroyed 1781) 2098 12 7
1670–73 St. Vedast Foster Lane 1853 15 6
1670–77 St. Sepulchre 4993 4 0
1670–77 St. Mary Woolnoth (re-built 1716–27) 3457 15 9
1670–79 St. Mildred Poultry (destroyed 1872) 4654 9 7¾
1670–81 St. Benet Fink (destroyed 1842–44). 4129 16 10
1670–80 St. Mary le Bow 8071 18 1
1671–83 " Tower 7388 8 7¾
1670–86 St. Lawrence Jewry 11,870 1 9
1670–84 St. Bride 11,430 5 11
1670–86 St. Dionis Backchurch (destroyed 1878) 5737 10 8
1670–77 St. Michael Cornhill 4686 10 4
1671–87 St. Magnus 9579 19 10
1670–79 St. Edmund King and Martyr 5207 11 0
1677–91 Christ Church 11,778 9 6
1677–87 St. James Garlickhithe 5357 12 10
1677–87 St. Peter Cornhill 5647 8 2
1677–85 St. Benet Paul's Wharf 3328 18 10
1677–87 St. Martin Ludgate 5378 9 7
1677–87 All Hallows the Great (destroyed 1894) 5641 9 9
1677–87 St. Swithin 4687 4 6
1677–87 All Hallows Bread Street (destroyed 1877) 3348 7 2
1680–87 St. Augustine 3145 3 10
1678–91 St. Antholin (destroyed 1874) 5685 5 10¾
1681–87 St. Mildred Bread Street 3705 13 6¼
1681–87 St. Benet Gracechurch (destroyed 1867) 4583 9 5¾
1681–87 St. Mary Abchurch 4922 2 4½
1683–87 St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street (destroyed 1887) 4291 12 9½
1681–87 St. Matthew Friday Street (destroyed 1881) 2301 8 2
1683–87 St. Clement Eastcheap 4362 3 4½
1682–87 St. Alban Wood Street 3165 0 8
1684–89 St. Margaret Pattens 4986 18 8
1684–94 St. Michael Crooked Lane (destroyed 1831) 4541 5 11
1686–95 St. Margaret Lothbury 5340 8 1
1686–94 St. Mary Somerset (destroyed, except tower, 1867) 6579 18 1¼
1686–94 All Hallows Lombard Street 8058 15 6
1685–95 St. Andrew Wardrobe 7060 16 11
1686–94 St. Michael Paternoster Royal 7455 7 9

N.B.—The churches of St. Andrew Holborn and St. Mary Aldermary are not included in the book of accounts.

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