St John the Evangelist Friday Street

Wenceslaus Hollar's “Exact Surveigh” of the City of London, 1667 shows it at the intersection of Friday Street and Watling Street, to the south-east, although Peller's Londinium Redivivum states that it "was situated on the south side of Bread Street, where that street forms an angle with Friday Street". In the early 18th century, some years after the destruction of the church itself, the parish was described as covering "part of Watling Street", the number of houses being "24 and an half." The patronage of the church belonged to the prior and abbey of Christchurch, Canterbury until the dissolution, and then to the dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral. In the early 1620s a debate was…