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Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical

Chapter 70: APPENDIX VIII THE MONASTIC HOUSES
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A detailed historical survey examines the interplay between civic government and ecclesiastical institutions in medieval London, opening with municipal records, charters, wards, and guilds before turning to religious life, liturgy, calendars, rites, pilgrimage, sanctuary, miracle plays, burial customs, and popular superstitions. A substantial section profiles monastic and charitable foundations—priories, hospitals, friaries, nunneries, fraternities—and their architecture, endowments, and daily functions. Appendices compile ward lists, parishes, patronages, festivals, and documentary excerpts, while numerous contemporary illustrations and plans accompany analytical narrative and documentary extracts.

APPENDIX VIII
THE MONASTIC HOUSES

List of Religious Houses and Parish Churches

The religious Houses and Churches of the City and its suburbs which existed in the fifteenth century are enumerated in Arnold’s Chronicle. Arnold, who lived and wrote towards the end of the fifteenth century, belongs to Mediæval London, which Stow, of a hundred years later, certainly did not. We shall adopt, therefore, from Arnold’s list, as a guide to this survey of Mediæval London, the Churches and ecclesiastical foundations which he considers as especially belonging to London. His own spelling is followed here.

  • Seint Martin’s Graunte
  • Cryst Chirche
  • The Chartur hous
  • Elsyngspitel
  • Seynt Barthū Priory
  • Seynt Barthū Spitel
  • Seynt Thom̄s of Acres
  • Seint Antonis
  • Seynt Johēs in Smythfeld
  • Clerkenwell Nonry
  • Halywelle Nonry
  • Barmondsay Abbey
  • Seint Mary Ouery Priory
  • Seint Thom̄s Spitel
  • Saint Giles in the Felde
  • Seynt Helen’s Nonry
  • Seynt Mary Spitel
  • Seynt Mary at Beethelem
  • The Menures Nonry
  • Seynt Anne at the Tourhil
  • Seynt Katerins
  • The Crouched Fryers
  • The Friers Augustines
  • The Fryours Mynors
  • The Fryours P’chars
  • Seynt James in the Wall
  • The Whit Fryers
  • Seint Peter at Westm̄ Abbey
  • Seynt James in the Temple
  • Seynt Stephenys at Westminster
  • Seint Thom̄s Chapel of the Bridge
  • Seynt James in the Fields
  • Seynte Mary Magdalene Yeldhall
  • Seynt Mary Rouncyuale
  • Seynt Ursula chapel in the Poultry