List of Christopher Wren churches in London

Churches in the City of London

Eighty-eight parish churches were burned during the Great Fire of London in 1666. The office of Christopher Wren rebuilt 51 parish churches and St Paul's Cathedral. Many of these churches were demolished as the population of the City of London declined in the 19th century and more were destroyed or damaged during the Blitz.

Survived in original form

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Coordinates
90px	St Benet Paul's Wharf	Queen Victoria Street, Queenhithe, City of London	1677-83	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Clement Eastcheap	Clement's Lane, Candlewick, City of London	1683-87	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Edmund, King and Martyr	Lombard Street, Langbourn, City of London	1670-79	Grade I (1950)
90px	St James Garlickhythe	Garlick Hill, Vintry, City of London	1676-83	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Margaret Lothbury	Lothbury, Coleman Street Ward and Broad Street Ward, City of London	1686-90	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Margaret Pattens	Eastcheap, Billingsgate, City of London	1684-87	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Martin, Ludgate	Ludgate Hill, Farringdon Within, City of London	1677-84	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Mary Abchurch	Abchurch Lane, Candlewick, City of London	1681-86	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Mary Aldermary	Queen Victoria Street, Cordwainer, City of London	1679-82	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Michael's Cornhill	Cornhill, Cornhill, City of London	1669-72	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Paul's Cathedral	St Paul's Churchyard, Castle Baynard, City of London	1675-1711	Grade I (1950)
	St Peter upon Cornhill	Cornhill, Cornhill, City of London	1677-84	Grade I (1950)
90px	St Stephen Walbrook	Walbrook, Walbrook, City of London	1672-79	Grade I (1950)

Substantially altered before the Blitz

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Comment	Coordinates
	St Magnus-the-Martyr	Lower Thames Street, Bridge, City of London	1671-87	Grade I (1950)	altered after London Bridge was widened in 1762
90px	St Mary-at-Hill	Lovat Lane, Billingsgate, City of London	1670-76	Grade I (1950)	altered in 1787-88 and 1826-1827

Substantially rebuilt after the Blitz

The Blitz in 1940-1941 damaged nearly all the churches in the City of London and many were nearly destroyed leaving just the outer walls and tower. However most of them were rebuilt to Wren's original design.

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Comment	Coordinates
90px	St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe	Queen Victoria Street, Castle Baynard, City of London	1685-95	Grade I (1950)	rededicated in 1961
90px	St Andrew, Holborn	Holborn Viaduct, Farringdon Without, City of London	1686-87	Grade I (1950)	re-opened in 1961
90px	St Anne and St Agnes	Gresham Street, Aldersgate, City of London	1676-87	Grade I (1950)	rededicated in 1966
90px	St Bride's Church	Fleet Street, Castle Baynard, City of London	1670-84	Grade I (1950)	rededicated in 1957
90px	St Lawrence Jewry	Gresham Street, Cheap, City of London	1670-86	Grade I (1950)	restored in 1957
90px	St Mary-le-Bow	Cheapside, Cordwainer, City of London	1670-83	Grade I (1950)	reconsecrated in 1964
	St Michael Paternoster Royal	College Hill, Dowgate, City of London	1686-94	Grade I (1950)	restored in 1966–8
90px	St Nicholas Cole Abbey	Queen Victoria Street, Bread Street Ward, City of London	1671-81	Grade I (1950)	reconsecrated in 1962
90px	St Vedast Foster Lane	Foster Lane, Cheap, City of London	1670-97	Grade I (1950)	restored by 1962

Tower remaining

These churches were destroyed in the Blitz or demolished in the 19th century. Only their towers remained with perhaps a short section of the outer wall. They are no longer working churches.

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Comment	Coordinates
90px	St Mary Somerset	Upper Thames Street, Queenhithe, City of London	1686-94	Grade I (1950)	Body of the church demolished in 1871. Tower surrounded by small garden
90px	St Olave Old Jewry	Ironmonger Lane, Walbrook, City of London	1670-79	Grade I (1950)	Body of the church was demolished in 1887. Tower is part of an office building.
90px	Christ Church Greyfriars	Newgate Street, Farringdon Within, City of London	1677-91	Grade I (1950)	Destroyed in the Blitz. The ruins are a public garden, the tower is private residence
90px	St Alban's, Wood Street	Wood Street, Bassishaw, City of London	1682-87	Grade II (1950)	Destroyed in the Blitz. The tower is private dwelling
90px	St Augustine Watling Street	Watling Street, Bread Street Ward, City of London	1680-87	Grade I (1950)	Destroyed in the Blitz. Tower part of St Paul's Cathedral Choir School
90px	St Dunstan-in-the-East	St Dunstan's Hill, Billingsgate, City of London	1698	Grade I (1950)	Rebuilt in 1817-21, but destroyed in the Blitz. Ruins are a public garden

Stones re-used

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Comment	Coordinates
	All Hallows Lombard Street	Lombard Street, Langbourn, City of London	1686-94	never listed	Demolished in 1939, with the tower and interior fittings moved to All Hallows Twickenham
90px	St Mary Aldermanbury	Aldermanbury, Bassishaw, City of London	1670-74	Grade II (1972)	Ruined in 1940, and the stones transported to Fulton, Missouri in 1964. Rebuilt as a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill

Demolished due to the Union of Benefices Act (chronological order)

The population of the City of London declined sharply in the 19th century, and the Union of Benefices Act 1860 reduced the number of parish churches. The surplus churches were demolished.

Image	Name	Location	Date	Comment	Coordinates
	St Benet Gracechurch	Gracechurch Street, Bridge, City of London	1681-87	demolished in 1868
	St Mildred, Poultry	Poultry, Cheap, City of London	1670-77	demolished in 1872
90px	St Antholin, Budge Row	Watling Street, Cordwainer, City of London	1678-84	demolished in 1875
	St Michael Queenhithe	Upper Thames Street, Queenhithe, City of London	1676-86	demolished in 1876
	All Hallows Bread Street	Bread Street, Bread Street Ward, City of London	1681-1698	demolished in 1878
	St Dionis Backchurch	Fenchurch Street, Langbourn, City of London	1670-77	demolished in 1878
	St Matthew Friday Street	Friday Street, Bread Street Ward, City of London	1682-85	demolished in 1885
	St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street	Old Change, Castle Baynard, City of London	1683-87	demolished in 1893
	All-Hallows-the-Great	Upper Thames Street, Dowgate, City of London	1677-84	demolished in 1894
	St Michael Wood Street	Wood Street, Cripplegate, City of London	1670-75	demolished in 1897

Demolished for other reasons (chronological order)

Image	Name	Location	Date	Demolition	Reason	Coordinates
	St Christopher le Stocks	Threadneedle Street, Broad Street Ward, City of London	1670-71	demolished in 1782	to provide space for the extension of the Bank of England
	St Michael, Crooked Lane	Miles's Lane, Candlewick, City of London	1687	demolished in 1831	wider approaches were needed for the rebuilt London Bridge
	St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange	Bartholomew Lane, Broad Street Ward, City of London	1675-83	demolished in 1840	to provide space for the widening of Threadneedle Street
	St Benet Fink	Threadneedle Street, Broad Street Ward, City of London	1670-75	demolished between 1841 and 1846	to improve the site of the Royal Exchange
	St Michael Bassishaw	Basinghall Street, Bassishaw, City of London	1675-79	demolished in 1900	judged structurally unsafe in 1892
	St George Botolph Lane	Botolph Lane, Billingsgate, City of London	1671-76	demolished in 1904	judged structurally unsafe and closed 1901

Destroyed in the Blitz

These churches were destroyed in the Blitz and their ruins demolished afterwards.

Image	Name	Location	Date	Demolition	Coordinates
	St Stephen Coleman Street	Coleman Street, Coleman Street Ward, City of London	1677	1940
90px	St Mildred, Bread Street	Bread Street, Bread Street Ward, City of London	1677-83	1941
	St Swithin, London Stone	Cannon Street, Walbrook, City of London	1678	1962

Interior refurbished by Christopher Wren

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Comment	Coordinates
90px	Temple Church	Fleet Street, Farringdon Without, City of London	1682-83	Grade I (1950)	During the restoration after the Blitz Wren's wooden altar was discovered in a museum and was restored to its original position

Churches built outside the City of London

These churches were outside the area of the Great Fire of London.

Image	Name	Location	Date	Listing	Comment	Coordinates
90px	St Anne's Church, Soho	Dean Street, Soho, City of Westminster	1677-85	Grade II (1958)	The body of the church by Wren and William Talman was destroyed in the Blitz and later totally demolished; the preserved tower was built by S.P. Cockerell in 1801-03
90px	St Clement Danes	The Strand, City of Westminster	1680-82	Grade I (1958)	Destroyed in 1941; reconsecrated in 1958 after the Blitz.
90px	St James's Church, Piccadilly	Piccadilly, St James's, City of Westminster	1676-84	Grade I (1958)	Destroyed in 1940; restored in 1947-54 after the Blitz
	Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea	Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	1682-87	Grade I (1969)	Wren designed the rest of the Hospital, as well.

See also

• List of demolished churches in the City of London

Bibliography

• Godwin, George (1839), Churches of London, Vols.1-2, C. Tilt

External links

• Friends of the City Churches
• Church Bells of the City of London
• City of London Churches by Mark McManus
• Churches in the City from the Diocese of London
• Where the existing Wren churches are in London from Google maps
• View interiors of Wren Churches in 360 degrees