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St Christopher le Stocks was a parish church〔(History on-line )〕 on the south side of Threadneedle Street in the Broad Street Ward of the City of London. Of Medieval origin, it was rebuilt following the Great Fire of London in 1666, but demolished in 1781 to make way for an extension of the neighbouring Bank of England. ==History== The earliest reference to the church is in 1282.〔Deacon, J, 'The Story of St Christopher-le-Stocks', in ''The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street'', 52 76-78:London, Bank of England,1982 ISSN 0962-5970 2C(272819)〕 The origin of the name is disputed: Freshfield (1876) maintained that it referred to the City Stocks, which at one time stood close to the church, but Huelin (1996) believed it to be a reference to the nearby Stock Exchange. Endowments were bequeathed in 1427 and 1506.〔( Church history )〕 The church was severely damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666, although the outer walls and tower survived. It was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1671 using much of the surviving material, and was the first of his churches to be completed 〔Amery 1988〕 at a cost of £2,098 12s 7d.〔Reynolds 1922〕 Edward Hatton, in his ''New View of London'' (1708) wrote of the restored church that "all the old part which the fire left, is of the ''Gothick'' Order; but the pillars within, are of the ''Tuscan''. And the walls are of old stone, finished or rendered over". As it stood at the beginning of the 18th century, the church was 72 feet long, 52 feet wide, and 40 feet high. The tower was about 80 feet tall; the steeple only housed one bell, the older peel having been destroyed in the Great Fire.〔Dibdin 1862, p. 10〕 Inside, the restored church had a wooden ceiling, divided into rectangular panels, and there was a seraph carved on the keystone of each arch. The church was wainscoted with oak to a height of about eight feet.〔 During the 18th century, the Bank of England gradually bought up adjoining properties, extending its site into the parish. In 1781 it came to an agreement with the rector of St Christopher's, and its patron, the Bishop of London, allowing it to demolish the church itself. This was not only motivated by a desire to build on the land, but also by a fear that rioters might use the church as a platform to attack the bank, a concern sparked by the Gordon Riots of 1780. The parish was united with that of St Margaret Lothbury in 1781, and the church pulled down the next year.〔Hallows,A.(Ed) “City of London Parish Registers Guide 4” - M0023878CL( Papers relating to the unification of the Church of England Parishes of St. Margaret Lothbury and St Christopher Le Stocks,1782): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0-900422-30-0〕 By 1800, due to the expansion of the bank, there were only 19 houses in the parish (with 133 inhabitants), down from 92 houses in 1732.〔 The churchyard was also requisitioned in 1798, and now lies underneath the bank’s Garden Court.〔(Burial site of the Bank’s first Governor )〕 Some parish records still exist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=15672&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2= )〕 A parish boundary mark (marking the boundary with that of St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange) can be seen on the front wall of the Bank of England. A similar mark is visible on the Princes Street elevation of the bank, marking the boundary with St Margaret Lothbury. The upper panels of the pulpit dating from Wren’s 1671 rebuilding survive at St. Nicholas Church, Canewdon in Essex and are a fine specimen of carving of the Grinling Gibbons style. 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 Christopher le Stocks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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