St Nicholas Acons

Detail: Sketch Map of London under Henry II, circa 1190; St Nicholas Acons is #79

Image: London Metropolitan Archives Corporation of London
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Detail: St Nicholas Acons banner, now in St Mary Woolnoth

Photo: C Myers, St Nicholas Center

St Nicholas Acons banner, now in St Mary Woolnoth

Photo: C Myers, St Nicholas Center

City of London sign on Nicholas Lane

Photo: Ash Montagu Find A Grave

Nicholas Passage, short alleyway from Nicholas Lane to Abchurch Lane; St Nicholas Acons was on the north side of the alley

Photo: IanVisits

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Nicholas Passage

Photo: IanVisits

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Nicholas Lane, off Lombard Street, St Nicholas Acons was on the west side of the lane

Photo: Bashereyre, Wikipedia

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Church of St Mary Woolnoth, where the St Nicholas Acons banner now hangs
John Newton, the former slaver and later Anglican priest, served St Mary Woolnoth as vicar from 1779-1807, he wrote the hymn Amazinig Grace

Photo: C Myers, St Nicholas Center

City of London, London (Middlesex) England UK

[Church of England (Anglican)]

The church, built in 1084 on Candlewick, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Though not rebuilt, the name was retained as a precinct and the name is still in use on Nicholas Lane. The spire had three gold balls, for St. Nicholas. It was close to the Lombard Street area with money-lenders and pawn brokers who used the symbol. Acon is thought to be in honor of Haakon, a Danish benefactor to the church.

The Parish united with St Edmund the King & Martyr in 1670 and, later, St Edmunds united with St Mary Woolnoth. The banner from St Nicholas Acons is now at St Mary Woolnoth. The churchyard on Nicholas Lane was excavated in 1964, yielding important Saxon remains.