Building    To 1666

Laurence Pountney Church & Corpus Christi College

Categories: Religion

Building

Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 times in the period 1330-6, and had his house on the west of what is now Laurence Pountney Hill.  He founded Corpus Christi College and his name was given to the (presumably, pre-existing) parish church in Candlewick Street.  The college chapel is thought to have been just to the north of the church.  The church and college were destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt.  The site was then used as a graveyard and is now a private garden, as is the church's original graveyard, to the south of the sunken pedestrian passageway.  More information at London Gardens Online.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Laurence Pountney Church & Corpus Christi College

Commemorated ati

Laurence Pountney Church

Site of Laurence Pountney Church and Corpus Christi College. Destroyed in th...

Read More

Other Subjects

Hannen Swaffer and Mrs Swaffer

Hannen Swaffer and Mrs Swaffer

Supporters of the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple.

Group, Paranormal, Religion

1 memorial
St Margaret Pattens

St Margaret Pattens

The church gets its name from the pattens (clog-like shoes) made and sold in the lane beside the church. An early building was pulled down and reconstructed in 1538. After the Great Fire it was aga...

Building, Religion

2 memorials
Susanna Annesley Wesley

Susanna Annesley Wesley

Born 7, Spital Yard, the 25th, and last (phew) child.  Her father, Dr. Samuel Annesley, was a minister, but a dissenter of the established church of England.   On becoming a teenager Susanna, centu...

Person, Religion

3 memorials
Dr. Jabez Bunting

Dr. Jabez Bunting

Leading Wesleyan Methodist. Born Manchester. Arrived in London in 1803. Regarded as the second founder of Methodism after John Wesley.

Person, Religion

1 memorial

Previously viewed

St Lawrence Jewry

St Lawrence Jewry

St Lawrence Jewry is so called because the original twelfth century church stood on the eastern side of the City, then occupied by the Jewish community. That church, built in 1136, was destroyed in...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
World War 2

World War 2

Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps.  And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

379 memorials