St Ann Blackfriars (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. St Ann Blackfriars was a London church of the seventeenth century, situated in the ward of Farringdon Within in Church Entry, Carter Lane. It was near the Blackfriars Theatre, a fact which displeased its congregation. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. Today, tiny parts of the churchyard are visible at Ireland Yard. It was a comparatively new church, consecrated in 1597, and had been rebuilt from ruins left by the dissolution of the monasteries, by public subscription. It became a Puritan stronghold, associated for 45 years with William Gouge, and a place thoughtful Londoners made a point of visiting. Fifty-one churches were chosen to be reconstructed, but Blackfriars was in the minority never to be rebuilt, and its parish was merged into that of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe.