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: St Nicholas Acons was a parish church in the City of London. In existence by the late 11th century, it was destroyed during the

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of 1666 and not rebuilt.

History

The church was situated on the west side of Nicholas Lane in Langbourn ward of the

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.Newcourt 1708, p.504 The name 'Acons' was derived from that of a mediaeval benefactor. The church is recorded as early as 1084, when Godwinus and his wife Turund gave its patronage to Malmesbury Abbey. It passed to the Crown on the dissolution of the monasteries. St Nicholas' was destroyed during the

of 1666 and not rebuilt. Instead the parish was united with that of St Edmund the King and Martyr, Lombard Street in 1670. The name retained as the name of a

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in the south-western part of

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. In the 1860s a proposed unification of the benefice of St Edmunds with St Nicholas and that of St Mary Woolnoth with St Mary Woolchurch Haw was vigorously defended by St Nicholas Acons' discrete churchwardens. In 1964 the churchyard was excavated and important Saxon remains found, but in the last decade of the 20th century Gordon Huelin noted that only a City Corporation commemoration at the site of the old parsonage remained to indicate a church had ever been there.

Present day

The parish now forms part of the combined

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of " St Edmund the King and Martyr, and St Mary Woolnoth Lombard Street with St Nicholas Acons,

All Hallows Lombard Street All Hallows Lombard Street, also seen with descriptor Gracechurch Street, was a parish church in the City of London. It stood behind thin buildings fronting both streets, in Langbourn Ward, The west and south sides faced into Ball Alley. Of ...

, St Benet Gracechurch, St Leonard Eastcheap, St Dionis Backchurch and St Mary Woolchurch Haw" – usually shortened to 'St Edmund and St Mary Woolnoth'. It is part of the

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.Diocese of London
St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth

Notes and references

Bibliography

*"The Register Book of the parish of St. Nicholas Acons, London, 1539–1812" Brigg, W(Transc) p 160: Leeds, Walker & Laycock, 1890. *''Church of England, Parish of St. Nicholas Acons. – PLAN OF THE PARISH OF SAINT NICHOLAS ACON'S LOMBARD STREET 1875'' / George Leg, 1875 ms. plan. – k1264830 cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows, A. (Ed): London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 . *"Vanished churches of the City of London", Huelin, G p21 : London Guildhall Library Publishing, 1996 *''A Descriptive Account of the Guildhall of the City of London-Its History and Associations'' in "The English Historical Review" Price, J.E. pp. 154–158: Oxford, Oxford University Press Jan., 1888 (Vol. 3, No. 9) * *''The Proposed Union Of City Benefices'' in "The Times" p 10: London,

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Newspaper, 1861 (Wednesday, 20 November; Issue 24095; col C) *''Local Administrative Units: Southern England'' Youngs, F. p. 302 :London, Royal Historical Society, 1979 *"The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert, C; Weinreb, D; Keay, J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) *

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