St Benet Sherehog

St Benet Sherehog
Current photo of site
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Roman Catholic, Anglican

St Benet Sherehog, additionally dedicated to St Osyth, was a medieval parish church built before the year 1111, on a site now occupied by No 1 Poultry in Cordwainer Ward, in what was then the wool-dealing district of the City of London. A shere hog is a castrated ram after its first shearing.

History

The church was originally dedicated to St Osyth. Sise Lane in the parish uses an abbreviated form of the saint's name.^[1] The historian John Stow believed that the later dedication of "Benet Sherehog" was derived from a corruption of the name of Bennet Shorne, a benefactor of the church in the reign of Edward II.^[2]

The patronage of the church belonged to the monastery of St Mary Overy until the Dissolution, when it passed to the Crown.^[3]

Matthew Griffith chaplain to Charles I was rector from 1640 until 1642, when he was removed from the post and imprisoned after preaching a sermon entitled "A Pathetical Persuasion to Pray for Publick Peace" in St Paul's Cathedral.^[1]

Destruction

St Benet's was one of the 86 parish churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and it was not selected to be rebuilt when the 1670 Act of Parliament became law. The parish was united to that of St Stephen Walbrook in the same year, but continued to be represented by its own churchwarden. In 1685, a church report judged the unification a success. Nearly two hundred years later, however, this arrangement was still capable of causing tension. Some of its parish records survive,^[4] and have been collated.

The site of the church was used as a burial-ground for the united parishes until closed by an act of parliament in 1853.^[5] It was excavated between 1994 and 1996, before the current office block was erected..^[6]

Plaque marking the site of the church in Sise Lane

Burials

Edward Hall (1497–1547), was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament, and historian

References

1 2 White, J.G. (1901). The Churches and Chapels of Old London. London.
↑ Newcourt, Richard (1708). Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinensis. London. pp. 350–1.
↑ Malcolm, James Peller (1807). Londinium Redivivium, or, an Ancient History and Modern Description of London. 4. London. pp. 612–3.
↑ Genealogical web site
↑ "St Benet Sherehog". Museum of London. Missing or empty |url= (help)
↑ "Digging up London in Theory and Practice" (PDF). Museum of London.

Bibliography

Bannerman,W.B, RAOC Harleian Society 1919-20 The Registers of St, Stephen, Walbrook, and St. Benet Sherehog, London. Part I (Baptisms 1557 to 1790; Marriages 1557 to 1754; Burials 1557 to 1716) & Part II (Baptisms 1790 to 1860; Marriages 1754 to 1860; Burials 1716 to 1860) London, Harleian Society, 1920
Betjeman, John, Sovereign City of London Churches, Andover: Pitkin, 1967 rpnt 1992 ISBN 0-85372-565-9
Cobb,G London City Churches: London, B T Batsford Ltd., 1977
'Church of England, Parish of St. Stephen Walbrook: Visitation order issued by the Archdeacon of London to the united parishes, 1685'. - M0015630CL cited in City of London Parish Registers Guide 4 Hallows,A.(Ed) - London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0-900422-30-0.
A Dictionary of London Harben,H: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
Huelin, G, Vanished Churches of the City of London, London,Guildhall Library Publications, 1996ISBN 0900422424
The London Encyclopaedia Hibbert,C; Weinreb,D; Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
Miles, A., Tankard,D. White, W. Burial at the site of the parish church of St Benet Sherehog before and after the Great Fire: excavations at 1 Poultry, City of London London, Museum of London Archaeological Service, Monograph Series, 2007
Reynolds, H, The Churches of the City of London, London, The Bodley Head, 1922
'Letter from Michael Gibbs, 33 Walbrook concerning the separateness of two church wardens’ duties'. The Times, Thursday, Sep 21, 1843; pg. 5; Issue 18407; col E

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Churches in the City of London

Existing churches	All Hallows-by-the-Tower All Hallows-on-the-Wall City Temple Dutch Church, Austin Friars St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe St Andrew, Holborn St Andrew Undershaft St Anne and St Agnes St Bartholomew-the-Great St Bartholomew-the-Less St Benet, Paul's Wharf St Botolph, Aldersgate St Botolph, Aldgate St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate St Bride, Fleet Street St Clement, Eastcheap St Dunstan-in-the-West St Edmund, King and Martyr St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate St Giles, Cripplegate St Helen, Bishopsgate St James, Garlickhythe St Katharine Cree St Lawrence Jewry St Magnus the Martyr St Margaret Lothbury St Margaret Pattens St Martin, Ludgate St Mary Abchurch St Mary Aldermary St Mary Moorfields St Mary Woolnoth St Mary-at-Hill St Mary-le-Bow St Michael, Cornhill St Michael, Paternoster Royal St Nicholas, Cole Abbey St Olave, Hart Street St Paul's Cathedral St Peter upon Cornhill St Sepulchre-without-Newgate St Stephen Walbrook St Vedast alias Foster Temple Church

Churches of which only the tower remains	All Hallows, Staining Christ Church, Greyfriars St Alban, Wood Street St Alphage London Wall St Augustine, Watling Street St Dunstan-in-the-East St Martin Orgar St Mary Somerset St Olave, Old Jewry

Churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished	All Hallows Bread Street All Hallows Lombard Street All-Hallows-the-Great St Antholin, Budge Row St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange St Benet Fink St Benet Gracechurch St Christopher le Stocks St Dionis Backchurch St George Botolph Lane St Katherine Coleman St Mary Aldermanbury St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street St Matthew Friday Street St Michael Bassishaw St Michael, Crooked Lane St Michael Queenhithe St Michael-le-Querne St Michael Wood Street St Mildred, Bread Street St Mildred, Poultry St Stephen Coleman Street St Swithin, London Stone

Churches destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt	All Hallows Honey Lane All-Hallows-the-Less Holy Trinity the Less St Andrew Hubbard St Ann Blackfriars St Benet Sherehog St Botolph Billingsgate St Faith under St Paul's St Gabriel Fenchurch St Gregory by St Paul's St John the Baptist upon Walbrook St John the Evangelist Friday Street St John Zachary St Laurence Pountney St Leonard, Eastcheap St Leonard, Foster Lane St Margaret Moses St Margaret, New Fish Street St Martin Pomary St Martin Vintry St Mary Bothaw St Mary Colechurch St Mary Magdalen Milk Street St Mary Mounthaw St Mary Staining St Mary Woolchurch Haw St Michael-le-Querne St Nicholas Acons St Nicholas Olave St Olave, Silver Street St Pancras, Soper Lane St Peter, Paul's Wharf St Peter, Westcheap St Thomas the Apostle

Other former churches	College of Minor Canons Holy Trinity Gough Square Hospital of St Thomas of Acre Old St Paul's Cathedral St Audoen within Newgate St Augustine Papey St James Duke's Place St Martin Outwich St Mary Axe St Nicholas Shambles St Peter le Poer

Coordinates: 51°30′47.5″N 0°5′29″W / 51.513194°N 0.09139°W / 51.513194; -0.09139

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