All Hallows Honey Lane

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constructed_date = 11th century
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demolished_date = 1666 [“The Old Churches of London” Cobb,G: London, Batsford, 1942]
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address = Honey Lane, London
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The Mortality Bill for the year 1665 , published by the Parish Clerk’s Company, shows 97 parishes within the City of London [ "The ancient office of Parish Clerk and the Parish Clerks Company of London" Clark, O in "London, Journal of the Ecclesiastical Law Society Vol 8, January 2006" ISSN: 0956-618X ] . By September 6th the city lay in ruins [ "Diary of Samuel Pepys" Dover, Lewis Publications,1992 ISBN 048636675] , 86 churches having been destroyed ["The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922] by the Great Fire of London. By 1670 a Rebuilding Act had been passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to plan the new parishes [ "Wren" Whinney M, London Thames & Hudson, 1971 ISBN 0500201129] . Fifty-one were chosen, but All Hallows, Honey Lane was one of the unlucky minority never to be rebuilt [ "The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J. Andover, Pitkin, 1967 (rpnt 1992) ISBN 0853725659 ] .

It was situated in Honey Lane, at the north-west corner of Honey Lane Market in Cripplegate Ward Within, in the City of London ["An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes and churches, comprehend.d plats, 10 Decem.r A.o Dom.i 1666", Leake J.(Engr Vertue,G 1723] .Early spellings include
*All Hallows de Honilane 1279
*All Hallows in Honylane 1287
*Parish of Honylane 1297 ["A Dictionary of London" Harben, H.: London, Herbert Jenkins, 1918] .A very small parish ["The registers of St. Mary le Bowe, Cheapside, All Hallows, Honey Lane, and of St. Pancras, Soper Lane, London" Bannerman, W.B., London Harleian Society 1914] with Lutheran sympathies ["Vanished Churches of the City of London" Huelin G, London Guildhall Library Publishing 1996 ISBN 0900422424] it was united with St Mary-le-Bow [ "Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire 1, Cheapside: Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St.Martin Pomary, St. Mary le Bow, St. Mary Colechurch, and St. Pancras Soper Lane" Keene D & Harding V.: Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1987 ISBN 0859641902] , although the name also lived on as a ward precinct [ "Cheap Ward. - All Hallows Honey Lane Precinct: minute books, giving names of ward officers, 1726 q28 08806" cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows A.(Ed): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 ISBN 0900422300] . The site became first a market ["The City of London - a history" Borer, M.I.C. : New York, D.McKay Co, 1978 ISBN 0094618801] and is now occupied by the British Telecom shop at 114 Cheapside [ [http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sundials.co.uk/city/114cheapsmall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sundials.co.uk/~london.htm&h=178&w=138&sz=24&hl=en&start=1&sig2=m3Xxz3iizg7Z-Pvr5CwInQ&um=1&tbnid=p8qOfSzA8w_1eM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=78&ei=RfbuRrIsqIp4942pvwY&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBritish%2Btelecom%2BCheapside%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN British Telecom Shop at site] ] . Partial records survive at IGI [ [http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/city-ch.html Genealogical Web-Site] ] .

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