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St Peter upon Cornhill is an Anglican church on the corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street in the City of London of medieval origin. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It is now a satellite church in the parish of St Helen's Bishopsgate and is used for staff training, bible studies and a youth club. The St Helen's church office controls access to St Peter's.〔http://www.st-helens.org.uk/home/〕 The church was used by the Tank Regiment after the Second World War, subsumed under St Helen's Bishopsgate. ==Early history== The church of St Peter upon Cornhill stands on the highest point of the City of London. A tradition grew up that the church was of very ancient origin and was the seat of an archbishop until coming of the Saxons in the 5th century, after which London was abandoned and Canterbury became the seat for the 6th-century Gregorian mission to the Kingdom of Kent. The London historian John Stow, writing at the end of the 16th century, reported "there remaineth in this church a table whereon is written, I know not by what authority, but of a late hand, that King Lucius founded the same church to be an archbishop's see metropolitan, and chief church of his kingdom, and that it so endured for four hundred years". The "table" (tablet) seen by Stow was destroyed when the medieval church was burnt in the Great Fire, but before this time a number of writers had recorded what it said. The text of the original tablet as printed by John Weever in 1631 began: Be hit known to al men, that the yeerys of our Lord God an clxxix (179 ). ''Lucius'' the fyrst christen kyng of this lond, then callyd Brytayne, fowndyd the fyrst chyrch in London, that is to sey, the Chyrch of Sent ''Peter'' apon Cornhyl, and he fowndyd ther an Archbishoppys See, and made that Chirch the Metropolitant, and cheef Chirch of this kingdom... A replacement, in the form of an inscribed brass plate, was set up after the Great Fire〔 and still hangs in the church vestry today. The text of the brass plate has been printed several times, for example by George Godwin in 1839,〔 and an engraving of it was included in Robert Wilkinson's ''Londina Illustrata'' (1819–25).〔 An illustration of Wilkinson's engraving is accessible at (【引用サイトリンク】title=Tufts Digital Library )〕 In 1444 a "horsemill" was given to St Peter's. The bells of St Peter are mentioned in 1552, when a bell foundry in Aldgate was asked to cast a new bell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Peter upon Cornhill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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