Clerkenwell No. 2

No individual entry found for Clerkenwell in the Domesday survey. The entry for this priory in'St John's Church and St John's Square', in Survey of London: Volume 46, South and East Clerkenwell, ed. Philip Temple (London, 2008), pp. 115-141. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol46/pp115-141 [accessed 24 May 2019] notes: "The priory was founded around 1144 on ten acres granted by Jordan de Bricet, lord of Clerkenwell manor. Separated from the Augustinian nunnery of St Mary to the north by a wedge of open ground and the nunnery's private road (now Clerkenwell Green and Aylesbury Street respectively) [...] permanent structure was the round-naved church of c. 1144–60 [...] The first Hospitaller church, of c. 1144–c. 1160, comprised a round nave linked to a short and narrow raised chancel over a crypt [...] St John's was one of the last monastic houses to be dissolved under Henry VIII, in March 1540, and aside from the church, which was reduced to a fraction of its size, the inner precinct survived remarkably intact. [...] Ravaged by fire during the Blitz of 1941, St John's Church was extensively reconstructed after the war for the Order of St John by the architects Seely & Paget. Behind the rather bland 1950s entrance front a patchwork of fabric remains visible, evidence of an involved constructional history. The building occupies the site of the original round-naved Hospitaller church of the twelfth century. Much enlarged and embellished, this church was largely demolished after the Dissolution, leaving only the chancel, side aisles and crypt. In the 1720s this battered remnant was rebuilt as a second parish church for Clerkenwell, which it remained until 1931, when it was given to the Order for its private services and investitures." [NB: no font is mentioned in any of the sources accessed]. [NB: see Index entry for Hogshaw for the font originally from Hogshaw but now displayed in the Museum of the Order of St John]