St Nicholas Shambles Parish Church

Detail: Sketch Map of London under Henry II, circa 1190; St Nicholas Shambles is #81

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Christ Church, Newgate Street: 1306, 300 feet long, perhaps the largest in England at the time. Rebuilt by Wren after the Great Fire (1666), it was gutted during World War II and is now a public garden

Photo: Stephen Millar City of London Churches
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British Telecom building currently on the site
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City of London, London (Middlesex) England UK

[Roman Catholic]

The church, built before 1196, on the corner of Butcher Hall Lane (now King Edward Sstreet) and Newgate Street, was named because of its proximity to the butchers' quarter, the Shambles. It was demolished in 1547; the three parishes of St. Nicholas in the Shambles, St. Ewine in Newgate Market and part of St. Sepulchres within Newgate formed Christ Church Parish, founded and named by King Henry VIII, in 1546. Houses were built on the site that came to be known as Bull Head Court. The church endowments were given to nearby St Bartholomew's Hospital. The site was excavated in the 1970s before the GPO headquarters was built, now headquarters for British Telecom.

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