St Martin Vintry Explained

St Martin Vintry
Denomination:	Anglican
Demolished Date:	1666

St Martin Vintry was a parish church in the Vintry ward of the City of London, England. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and never rebuilt.^[1]

History

The church stood at what is now the junction of Queen Street and Upper Thames Street, just north of Southwark Bridge.^[2] It was rebuilt in 1306, the choir at the cost of Queen Margaret. The Vintners' Company had an altar in the church dedicated to St Martin, who was their patron saint.^[3]

St Martin Vintry was one of 86 parish churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London. In 1670, a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt.^[4] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Martin Vintry was not among them.^[5] Instead its parish was united with that of St Michael Paternoster Royal.

Further reading

• Transcripts of parish registers, vol. 61 (St Martin in the Vintry, 1613–1754). Challen, W. H. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1927.

Notes and References

1. [The London Encyclopaedia]
2. Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations Pearce, C.W.: London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd, 1909
3. Book: White . J.G. . The Churches and Chapels of Old London . 1901 . London . 110–111.
4. Wren Whinney, M. London Thames & Hudson, 1971. .
5. The City of London Churches Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992)