St Faith under St Paul's in Castle Baynard Ward was an unusual parish within the City of London.The parish also extended into Farringdon Within: It originally had its own building to the east of St Paul's Cathedral, serving as a parish church for the residents of St Paul's Churchyard and Paternoster Row, but this was removed in 1256 to allow for the eastern expansion of the Cathedral. The parishioners were instead given a space to worship within the cathedral crypt.
The parish appears as "St Faith within the monastery of St Paul's, London" in 1381, with mention of John Phelip, as a former parson.Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/483; year 1381, Term 4; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no483/483_0233.htm; 6th entry, William Phelip, brother & heir of John Phelip, formerly parson of St Faith, etc.
Until the reign of Edward VI the parishioners worshipped at the end of the west crypt under St Paul’s Quire. Sir Simonds D'Ewes, the diarist, attended the wedding of his father Paul and his stepmother, Lady Elizabeth Denton, in "St. Faith's under St. Paul's" on 5 March 1623, and Sir Simonds's younger sister Mary also married there on 4 December 1626"The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes," London, 1845, vol. 1, pp. 229, 324. From the reign of Edward VI until the Great Fire the parishioners, mostly booksellers in Paternoster Row,Diary of Samuel Pepys, Dover, Lewis Publications, 1992 transferred to the Jesus Chapel, their separateness emphasised by a screen.A Survey of London, Vol I Stow, J. (Originally, 1598: this edn-London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1890)
After the destruction of the cathedral by the Great Fire in 1666,The tombs, monuments, etc., visible in S. Paul's Cathedral (and S. Faith's beneath it) previous to its destruction by fire A.D. 1666 Major Payne Fisher (Blacker Morgan, G.B. Ed., 1855): London, Privately printed, 1684. the parish was united with that of St Augustine Watling Street."The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922
Burials Christopher Barker (officer of arms) Margaret Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Dr. Richard Carr, M.D. Sir Thomas Knight Argall, Clerk to Thomas Cromwell
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