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Key Image All Hallows Staining
Mark Lane
EC3R 7LQ London (City of London)
United Kingdom
Denomination: (remains)
Geogr. Coordinates: 51.51161° N, 0.08045° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 1320
Architectural style: Gotik
Description: Square, Gothic tower, cased in rubblestone.
Name derivation: Name affix “Staining” due to being built of stone (as opposed to the other, wooden “All Hallows” churches in the City of London).
Noteworthy
  • Crypt (12th cent.; originally in a chapel at the London Wall)
History:
12th cent.:   First mention of a precursor church (probably already the second church in the same place)
About 1320:   Construction of the tower (lower wall parts possibly dating from the 12th cent.)
1671:   Collapse of the church (caused by too many interments in the adjacent cementery)
1675:   Reconstruction
1870:   Demolition of the church, saving of the tower due to an intervention by the Clothworkers’ Company
1873:   Restoration of the tower
1948:   Until 1954 used as chancel for a provisional church “St Olave, Mark Lane” (before St Olave, Hart Street, was rebuilt)
Sources
Millar, Stephen: London’s City Churches, Metro Publications, London 2013, p. 184
The Clothworkers’ Company: „All Hallows Staining“, Informationstafel an der Kirche
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