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{{Short description|Former church-site in London}}
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| name = St Mary Woolchurch Haw <ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10232820 Dates of parish]</ref>
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| denomination = [[Anglican]],Church originally [[Romanof CatholicEngland]]
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'''St Mary Woolchurch Haw''' was a parish church in the [[City of London]], destroyed in the [[Great Fire of London]] of 1666 and not rebuilt.<ref>"The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert, C; Weinreb, D; Keay, J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993, 2008) {{ISBN |978-1-4050-4924-51405049245}}</ref> It came within the [[Wards of the City of London|ward]] of [[Walbrook]].
 
==History==
[[File:Civitas Londinium StMaryWoolchurch.jpg|thumb|right|A section of the [[Woodcut map of London|"woodcut" map of London]] of c.1561, showing St Mary Woollchurch Haw (marked "Q"), [[St Mary Woolnoth]] (marked with a reversed "P") and [[St Stephen's, Walbrook]] (marked "R").]]
The church of St Mary Woolchurch Haw was an ancient foundation, dating from the time of
The church of St Mary Woolchurch Haw was an ancient foundation, dating from the time of [[William I of England|William I]], when it was given to the [[Abbot]] and Convent of [[St. John's Abbey, Colchester|St John's, Colchester]], by [[Hubert of Ryes]], who was the father of [[Eudo Dapifer]], William's [[Steward (office)|steward]]. In the Charter of Endowment, it is referred to as "[[Virgin Mary|St Mary]] of West Cheaping, which is called Newchurch"; the eastern end of [[Cheapside]] is now called [[Poultry, London|Poultry]].<ref>Brooke, J M S (1886), [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029785478#page/n53/mode/2up The Transcript of the Registers of the United Parishes of S. Mary Woolnoth and S. Mary Woolchurch Haw in the City of London, from their Commencement 1538 to 1760], Bowles & Sons, London (p. 43)</ref> It became the property of the crown after the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolution.]]
William I, when it was given to the Abbot and Convent of St John's, Colchester. It became the property of the crown after the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolution]]
 
The name is said to be derived from that a beam that was once fixed in the churchyard, which was used for weighing wool. The church was rebuilt in the reign of [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]].<ref name=white/> At the end of the sixteenth century [[John Stow]] described it as "reasonably fair and large",<ref>"A Survey of London, Vol I" Stow, J. p446p. 446 : Originally 1598- – this edn, London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1890</ref> and [[John Strype]] recorded that it was "richly repaired and beautified, at the Charge of the Parishioners" in 1629.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/TransformServlet?page=book2_195 |title=Walbrook Ward. St. Mary Woollchurch |author= |publisher=The Stuart London Project, Humanities Research Institute, The University of Sheffield |accessdateaccess-date=27 September 2011}} </ref>
 
St Mary Woolchurch Haw was one of the 86 parish churches destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666. The [[Parish clerk (Church of England)|parish clerk]] and the [[Sexton (office)|sexton]] were able to rescue the "plate" (the silverware used during services), "the new great [[Bible]]" and some [[vestments]]; while the clerk was doing this, all his own property was burned.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029785478#page/n67/mode/2up Brooke (pp. 56–57)]</ref> In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of [[Christopher Wren|Sir Christopher Wren]] to decide which would be rebuilt.<ref>"Wren" Whinney,M London Thames & Hudson, 1971 {{ISBN |0500201129}}</ref> Fifty-one were chosen, but St Mary Woolchurch Haw was not among them.<ref>"The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) {{ISBN |0853725659}}</ref> The parish was united to that of [[St Mary Woolnoth]].
 
The [[Mansion House, London|Mansion House]] now stands on the site.<ref name=white>{{cite book |last1=White |first1=J.G. |title=The Churches and Chapels of Old London |url=httphttps://www.archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft |accessdate= |year=1901 |publisher= |location=London |pages=133–4[https://archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft/page/133 133]–134}} </ref>
 
==Present day==
The parish now forms part of the combined [[Ecclesiastical parish|parish]] of ''[[St Edmund the King and Martyr]], and [[St Mary Woolnoth|St Mary Woolnoth Lombard Street]] with [[St Nicholas Acons]], [[All Hallows Lombard Street]], [[St Benet Gracechurch]], [[St Leonard Eastcheap]], [[St Dionis Backchurch]] and St Mary Woolchurch Haw'' – usually shortened to "St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth". It is part of the [[Church of England]]'s [[Diocese of London]].<ref>[http://www.london.anglican.org/about/explore-the-diocese/parish/st-edmund-st-mary-woolnoth/ Diocese of London] St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth</ref>
 
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