St Edmund, King and Martyr

Coordinates: 51°30′44.62″N 0°5′10.68″W / 51.5123944°N 0.0863000°W / 51.5123944; -0.0863000
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This article is about the church. For the person, see Edmund the Martyr.

St Edmund King and Martyr
Saint Edmund the King and Martyr
Style
Baroque
Administration
DioceseLondon
Episcopal areaTwo Cities
ArchdeaconryLondon
DeaneryCity of London

St Edmund, King and Martyr, is an

consecrated church. Since 2019, Imprint Church[3] organises regular worship inside of the building.[4][5][6]

The church lies in the ward of Langbourn, and has a ward noticeboard outside.

History

In 1292, the church is first recorded as 'Saint Edmund towards Garcherche',[7] and it reappears in 1348 as 'Saint Edmund in Lombardestrete'. John Stow, in his Survey of London 1598, revised during 1603, refers to it also as St Edmund Grass Church.[8]

The medieval church was destroyed in the

Sir Christopher Wren in 1670–1679,[11] with a tower ornamented at the angles by flaming urns in allusion to the Great Fire.[12] George Godwin described the tower as "more Chinese than Italian",[13] while James Peller Malcolm called it "rather handsome, but of that species of architecture which is difficult to describe so as to be understood".[10] The orientation of the church is unusual, with the altar towards the north, instead of east.[14]

The essayist Joseph Addison was married here in 1716.[15]

In September 1868 a riot occurred outside the church, as a consequence of one of a series of Friday morning sermons given by the Rev. J. L. Lyne – known as "Father Ignatius" – in which he had spoken disparagingly of the traders of Lombard Street.[16]

The church was restored in 1864 and 1880.

London Blitz.[18]

The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.[19]

Previous rectors

Rectors of the church have included Thomas Lyndford, chaplain in ordinary to George I, and Jeremiah Milles, president of the Society of Antiquaries.[10] After the Great War, Studdert Kennedy was given charge of St Edmund, King and Martyr. He moved to work for the Industrial Christian Fellowship, for whom he went on speaking tours of Britain. It was on one of these tours that he was taken ill. He died in Liverpool in 1929, exhausted at the age of 45, and poor people flocked to his funeral in Worcester, for the Dean of Westminster refused burial at the Abbey because, he said, Studdert Kennedy was a "socialist".[20]

Present day

The church and parish now forms part of the combined

St Leonard Eastcheap, St Dionis Backchurch and St Mary Woolchurch Haw – usually shortened to "St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth" (the only two aforementioned churches to have survived). It is part of the Church of England's Diocese of London.[21] and accommodates the office of the Bishop of Islington.[22]

Gallery

  • Historic engraving
    Historic engraving
  • Now a Centre for Spirituality
    Now a Centre for Spirituality
  • Interior
    Interior

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
  2. ^ Direction, London Centre for Spiritual. "London Centre for Spiritual Direction". London Centre for Spiritual Direction. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Home". We are IMPRINT. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Launch of IMPRINT Church London". CCX. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  5. ^ "24 year old plants his second church". Diocese of London. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  6. ^ "IMPRINT Church London". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  7. ^ London Guide
  8. ^ "In and around Lombard Street". City of London Essays. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
  9. ^ "The City Churches" Tabor, M. p74:London; The Swarthmore Press Ltd; 1917
  10. ^ a b c Malcolm, James Peller (1803). Londinium Redivivium, or, an Ancient History and Modern Description of London. Vol. 3. London. pp. 467–70.
  11. ^ "The Old Churches of London" Cobb,G: London, Batsford, 1942
  12. ISBN 0-300-09655-0
  13. ^ Godwin, George; John Britton (1839). The Churches of London: A History and Description of the Ecclesiastical Edifices of the Metropolis. London: C. Tilt. p. 345.
  14. ISBN 1-4097-1376-8
  15. ^ "The City of London Churches: monuments of another age" Quantrill, E; Quantrill, M p60: London; Quartet; 1975
  16. ^ The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 September 1868; pg. 9; Issue 26234
  17. ISBN 0-300-12508-9
  18. ISBN 978-1781592038
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  19. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1064631)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
  20. ^ Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  21. ^ Diocese of London St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth
  22. ^ "Ric Thorpe".

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