St Margaret, New Fish Street, was a parish church in the City of London.
The Mortality Bill for the year 1665, published by the Parish Clerks' Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London."The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London" Clark, O. :London, Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society; Vol. 8, January 2006 By September 6 the city lay in ruins due to the Great Fire of London, with 86 churches, including St Margaret, destroyed.The "Churches of the City of London"; Reynolds,H.: London: Bodley Head, 1922 The Rebuilding of London Act 1670 was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt.Wren Whinney, M. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971 Fifty-one were chosen, but St Margaret New Fish Street where the Monument now stands in Bridge ward was one of the minority never to be rebuilt.The City of London Churches; Betjeman, J. Andover: Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992)
Variously called St Margaret Bridge Street and St Margaret Fish Street Hill,A Dictionary of London; Harben, H.: London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918 it received many gifts from the pilgrims who passed it on the way to and from London Bridge.Churches of the City of London, Huelin, G. London: Guildhall Library Publications, 1996 ISBN 0900422424
Following the fire, it was united to St Magnus-the-Martyr.The London Encyclopaedia; Hibbert, C.; Weinreb, B..; Keay, J.: London: Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev. 1993, 2008)
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