St Margaret Moses was a parish church in Little Friday Street in the Bread Street Ward

Bread Street

Bread Street is a ward of the City of London and is named from its principal street, which was anciently the bread market; for by the records it appears that in 1302, the bakers of London were ordered to sell no bread at their houses but in the open market...

 of the City of London

City of London

The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...

.. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London

Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall...

 of 1666 and not rebuilt.

History

This church was founded by Robert Fitzwalter who gave its patronage to the Priory of St. Faith

Horsham St. Faith Priory

Horsham St. Faith Priory was a monastic house in Norfolk, England.-See also:*List of monastic houses in Norfolk*Horsham St Faith...

, in Horsham, Norfolk in 1105. It later became the property of the crown. The parish's name is thought to come from an early benefactor named Moyses.

In 1550 the incumbent

Vicar

In the broadest sense, a vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior . In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant...

 was the protestant martyr

Martyr

A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

 John Rogers

St Margaret Moses was one of 86 parish churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. In 1670 a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...

 to decide which would be rebuilt. Fifty-one were chosen, but St Margaret Moses was not among them. Instead the parish was united to that of St Mildred, Bread Street

St Mildred, Bread Street

St Mildred Bread Street was a church in Bread Street Ward of the City of London dedicated to the 7th century Saint Mildred the Virgin, daughter of Merewald, sub-king of the West Mercians and one of the few to retain Wren's original fittings into the 20th Century.The earliest record of the church...

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