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 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY of Edward VI. On the dissolution of the religious houses the churches of St. Nicholas Shambles and St. Ewen were destroyed, the church of the Greyfriars being made the parish church for the district under the name of Christ Church, Newgate Street. The church of St. Mary Axe was united with that of St. Andrew Undershaft in 1562,* St. Anne's Blackfriars was rebuilt and consecrated in 1597,° ^""^ '" 1622 a new church, St. James's Duke's Place, was consecrated.' The whole number of parish churches in the City and its liberties before the Great Fire of 1666 was 108. The scheme for rebuilding after the Fire* dealt with eighty-six parishes, of which seventeen were left unaltered, while the remaining sixty-nine were grouped in pairs (in one case three were united), so that the number of parish churches was reduced to seventy-three. This number remained unaltered throughout the i8th century, except for the union of St. Margaret Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks in 1 781, when the latter church was destroyed to make room for the extension of the Bank of England.' Owing to an increase of the population of some of the extra- mural parishes the chapelries of St. Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls (1842), Holy Trinity Gough Square (1842), St. Bartholomew Moor Lane (1850) and All Saints Bishopsgate (1864) were formed,^" but they have been remerged since in St. Dunstan's in the West, St. Bride's, St. Giles Cripplegate, and St. Botolph's Bishopsgate. On account, however, of the rapidly dimin- ishing population of most of the City parishes during the 19th century a large number of unions have taken place, chiefly under the Acts for the Union of Benefices, passed in i860 " and 1898,'^ in the former of which, however, it is expressly provided that the churches of St. Stephen Walbrook, St. Martin Ludgate, St. Peter Cornhill and St. Swithin shall not be pulled down. The peculiars of the Archbishop of Canterbury and others were abolished by Order in Council in 1845,'' and in 1864 the deaneriesof the East and WestCity were formed.^* The following tableshows the changes introduced since the Reformation in the ecclesiastical divisions of the City and its liberties. In the case of unions effected by the Fire Act, the name standing first is that of the church rebuilt for the united parishes. The names marked with asterisks are those of the surviving churches, while the names of non-parochial churches or chapels are enclosed in square brackets, and those which were destroyed before 1560 in round brackets. They are arranged under the modern deaneries.'* Deanery of the East City United by 1670.'^ Fire Act, •All Hallows Barking. . . St. Benet Gracechurch Street St. Leonard Eastcheap. St. Dionis Backchurch. •All Hallows London Wall. •St. Andrew Undershaft. • ) tt ■• j •, -<;, i3 c HT A ■ United in 1562.'^ St. Mary Axe I ^ •St. Botolph Aldgate . . Holy Trinity Minories (per petual curacy) By Order I Nov. in Council, 1864." By Order in Council, 23 Oct. 1876." By Order in Council, 16 May 1893.™ •St. Botolph Bishopsgate All Saints Bishopsgate . •St. Clement Eastcheap St. Martin Orgar . . •St. Dunstan in the East •St. Edmund the King . St. Nicholas Aeons . Formed as district cha- pelry by Order in Council, I Mar. 1864." United by Fire Act. Remerged by Local Act, 32 & 33 Vic. cap. Ixvii (1869). JBy Fire Act. ' Lond. Epis. Reg. Grindall, fol. 22 ; Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. 2, m. ' Ibid, i, 368. * Stat. 22 Chas. II, cap. 11. 30. ' Newcourt, Repert., 279. Stat. 21 Geo. Ill, cap. 71. " Ex inf. Mr. Harry W. Lee, bishop's registrar ; Lond. Gaz. 1 1 Oct. 1842, p. 2748 ; ibid. 21 June 1850, p. 1738 ; ibid. 4 Mar. 1864, p. 1329. " Stat. 23 & 24 Vic. cap. 142. " Stat. 61 & 62 Vic. cap. 23. " Lofid. Gaz. 20 Aug. 1845, p. 2541. By this Order all peculiar jurisdiction in the diocese of London, except that of the Cathedral, the collegiate church of Westminster, and the royal palaces, was abolished. '* Information supplied by Mr. F. H. Lee, Registrar of the Court of Arches. " The archdeaconry of London was not anciently divided into deaneries. The Bishop of London certified in 1563 that three of his archdeaconries were then divided into deaneries by name, but that there had been no deans within the memory of man, and he furthermore stated that the archdeaconries of London and St. Albans were not divided into deaneries. Dansey, Horae Decanuae Ruraks, ii, 352. " Stat. 22 Chas. II, cap. 11. " Lond. Gaz. 4 Nov. 1864, p. 5173. " Ibid. 27 Oct. 1876, p. 5685. " See note 5, sufui. '" Lond. Gaz. 19 May 1893, p. 2902. " Ibid. 4 March 1864, p. 1329. I 401 51
 * A11 Hallows Lombard Street.