London No. 77

Allen (1839?) writes that this church was already mentioned in the books of the dean and chapter of St. Paul's in 1181, and that it "was destroyed by the fire of London, on the ruins of which the present edifice was erected […] The architect was sir Christopher Wren. The church was rebuilt after the fire in 1683 […] The font is situated in a dark corner near the western entrance, it is circular in form, and carved with cherub heads; the obscurity of its situation, added to the appropriation of the pew in which it stands, as a receptacle for rubbish, renders it scarcely visible". Blatch (1995) reports that this church "was destroyed by bombing in 1941". [NB: the font reported in Allen (ibid.) is likely the one from Wren's re-building of 1683, and no information has been found so dar of its present whereabouts; the 12th-century (?) font of the original church is also unaccounted for in this Index]