The Hospital of St Thomas of Acre was the medieval London headquarters of the Knights of Saint Thomas. It was founded as a church in 1227[1] in the parish of St Mary Colechurch, birthplace of the order's patron saint, Saint Thomas Becket. In the 14th century and after it was the main headquarters of the military order.[2]
In 1512, the Worshipful Company of Mercers bought from the order a site by the church on which to build their hall, and in 1514 they formally became the patron to the order.[3]
In 1538, during the Protestant Reformation, the order was dissolved and the properties were forfeit to the crown, but were subsequently acquired by the Mercers in exchange for various payments, rents, and undertakings.[4]
Burials
Notes
- ↑ "The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H: London, The Bodley Head,1922
- ↑ "The City of London-a history" Borer,M.I.C. : New York,D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0-09-461880-1
- ↑ "A Dictionary of London" Harben, H.: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918
- ↑ "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
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Existing churches |
- All Hallows-by-the-Tower
- All Hallows-on-the-Wall
- City Temple
- Dutch Church, Austin Friars
- St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
- St Andrew, Holborn
- St Andrew Undershaft
- St Anne and St Agnes
- St Bartholomew-the-Great
- St Bartholomew-the-Less
- St Benet, Paul's Wharf
- St Botolph, Aldersgate
- St Botolph, Aldgate
- St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
- St Bride, Fleet Street
- St Clement, Eastcheap
- St Dunstan-in-the-West
- St Edmund, King and Martyr
- St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate
- St Giles, Cripplegate
- St Helen, Bishopsgate
- St James, Garlickhythe
- St Katharine Cree
- St Lawrence Jewry
- St Magnus the Martyr
- St Margaret Lothbury
- St Margaret Pattens
- St Martin, Ludgate
- St Mary Abchurch
- St Mary Aldermary
- St Mary Moorfields
- St Mary Woolnoth
- St Mary-at-Hill
- St Mary-le-Bow
- St Michael, Cornhill
- St Michael, Paternoster Royal
- St Nicholas, Cole Abbey
- St Olave, Hart Street
- St Paul's Cathedral
- St Peter upon Cornhill
- St Sepulchre-without-Newgate
- St Stephen Walbrook
- St Vedast alias Foster
- Temple Church
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Former churches |
- All Hallows Bread Street
- All Hallows Honey Lane
- All Hallows Lombard Street
- All Hallows, Staining (tower remains)
- All-Hallows-the-Great
- All-Hallows-the-Less
- Christ Church, Greyfriars (ruins remain)
- College of Minor Canons
- Holy Trinity Gough Square
- Holy Trinity the Less
- Hospital of St Thomas of Acre
- Old St Paul's Cathedral
- St Alban, Wood Street (tower remains)
- St Alphage London Wall (ruins remain)
- St Andrew Hubbard
- St Ann Blackfriars
- St Antholin, Budge Row
- St Audoen within Newgate
- St Augustine, Watling Street (tower remains)
- St Augustine Papey
- St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange
- St Benet Fink
- St Benet Gracechurch
- St Benet Sherehog
- St Botolph Billingsgate
- St Christopher le Stocks
- St Dionis Backchurch
- St Dunstan-in-the-East (ruins remain)
- St Faith under St Paul's
- St Gabriel Fenchurch
- St George Botolph Lane
- St Gregory by St Paul's
- St James Duke's Place
- St John the Baptist upon Walbrook
- St John the Evangelist Friday Street
- St John Zachary
- St Katherine Coleman
- St Laurence Pountney
- St Leonard, Eastcheap
- St Leonard, Foster Lane
- St Margaret Moses
- St Margaret, New Fish Street
- St Martin Orgar (tower remains)
- St Martin Outwich
- St Martin Pomary
- St Martin Vintry
- St Mary Aldermanbury
- St Mary Axe
- St Mary Bothaw
- St Mary Colechurch
- St Mary Mounthaw
- St Mary Somerset (tower remains)
- St Mary Staining
- St Mary Woolchurch Haw
- St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street
- St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street
- St Matthew Friday Street
- St Michael Bassishaw
- St Michael, Crooked Lane
- St Michael Queenhithe
- St Michael-le-Querne
- St Michael Wood Street
- St Mildred, Bread Street
- St Mildred, Poultry
- St Nicholas Acons
- St Nicholas Olave
- St Nicholas Shambles
- St Olave, Silver Street
- St Olave, Old Jewry (tower remains)
- St Pancras, Soper Lane
- St Peter le Poer
- St Peter, Paul's Wharf
- St Peter, Westcheap
- St Stephen Coleman Street
- St Swithin, London Stone
- St Thomas the Apostle
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