(St.) Margaret Fish Street Hill

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

On the east side of Fish Street Hill, opposite to Crooked Lane (Leake, 1666). In Bridge Ward Within, the parish extending into Billingsgate Ward.


Earliest mention: "Sci margaret' us Pont," 1199-1211 (Harl. Ch. H. 40).

Forms of name : "S. Marg' de froscherch," 13th cent. (MS. D. and C. St. Paul's, W.D. 12). "St. Margaret by London Bridge," 10-11 H. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 1893). "St. Margaret in Breggestrate," 1275 (Ct. H.W. I. 20). "St. Margaret the Virgin prope piscariam," 12 Ed. I. 1284 (Cal. P.R. Ed. I. 1281-92, p. 112). "S. Margaret, near Rederesgate," 1284 (Ct. H.W. I. 69.) "Sanctae Margaretae ad Pontem," 31 Ed. I. (Lib. Cust. I. 229). "St. Margaret in Fhistrete," 11 Ed. II. (Cal. P.R. 1317-24, p. 79). "St. Margaret de Brugge," 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 584). "St. Margaret, Croked Lane, 1 Ed. IV. (Cal. P.R. Ed. IV. 1461-7 p. 458). "St. Margaret on Fishstreete hill" (S. 214).

Its usual appellation down to the 16th century was "St. Margaret, Bridge Street."

It was provided by the City's ordinances that lampreys brought over from France ought to be exposed for sale immediately after arrival under the wall of St. Margaret's Church in Bridge Street (Riley's Mem. p. 83).

The church was destroyed in the Fire 1666 and not rebuilt, the parish being united to St. Magnus the Martyr (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 180).

A Rectory. Patrons : Abbot and Convent of Westminster until the dissolution of the monasteries, after which time it was given to the Bishop of London (Newcourt, I. p. 407).

The dedication is to St. Margaret the Virgin of Antioch, as she is called.

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