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A list of places of worship in London was compiled for William Maitland's 1739 History of London. It is thought to be the first such list published that goes beyond Church of England churches and chapels, to include the full variety of religions practised formally in London. The list then appeared in other publications, for two decades at least, without regard to updating.

By denominations, it divides as below.

Church of England

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Listed 76 churches, 68 chapels.

Church Incumbent Auxiliary clergy Comments and continuity
St Alban, Wood Street[1][2] Richard Sear or Seare, 1711–1743[3]

Presbyterians

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Listed 28 meeting houses.

  • Bethnal Green meeting: (de facto Independent) William Chapman, moved here from Lower Rotherhithe in 1704, to 1738; and William Sheffield from 1739.[12] Chapman was the son of Samuel Chapman, an ejected minister of 1662 who later conformed.[13][14][15] Sheffield was minister to 1755.[16]
  • Book House meeting, Clapton
  • Church Street meeting, Hoxton
  • Crosby Square meeting, Bishopsgate Street
  • Crown Court meeting, Russell Street
  • Founders Hall meeting, Lothbury
  • Gravel Lane meeting, Houndsditch; Gravel Pit Chapel, George Smith
  • Great St Thomas Apostles meeting
  • Hanover Street meeting, Longacre
  • King's Weigh-house meeting, Little Eastcheap
  • Leather Lane meeting, Holborn; Joshua Bayes from 1723 (ODNb)
  • Little Carter Lane meeting, Samuel Wright at Carter Lane (ODNB)
  • Little St. Helens meeting, Bishopgate Street
  • Maiden Lane meeting, Deadman's Place
  • Middlesex Court meeting, Bartholomew Close
  • Mourning Lane meeting, Hackney
  • New Broad Street meeting, London Wall
  • Old Bailey meeting
  • Old Jewry meeting, Poultry; Old Jewry Meeting-house, Samuel Chandler
  • Parish Street meeting, Horsleydown
  • Poor Jewry Lane meeting, near Aldgate; William Harris, replaced 1740 by George Benson (ODNB)
  • Rampant Lion Yard meeting, Nightingale Lane
  • Salters Hall meeting, Swithin's Lane
  • Shakespear's Walk meeting, Upper Shadwell
  • Silver Street meeting, Wood Street
  • Swallow Street meeting, Piccadilly; James Anderson 1734 to Lisle Street chapel, Leicester Fields
  • Windsor Court meeting, Monkwell Street

Independents

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Listed 26 meeting houses.

  • Boar's Head Yard meeting, Petticoat Lane
  • Brickhill Lane meeting, Thames Street
  • Broad Street meeting, near Old Gravel Lane
  • Court Yard meeting, Barnaby Street
  • Deadman's Place meeting, Southwark
  • Hare Court meeting, Aldersgate Street
  • Jewin Street meeting, Aldersgate Street
  • Mare Street meeting, Hackney
  • Nevil's Alley meeting, Fetter Lane
  • New Broad Street meeting, Moorfields
  • New Court meeting, Cary Street; Thomas Bradbury from 1728 (ODNB)
  • Orchard meeting, Wapping
  • Paved Alley meeting, Lime Street
  • Pavement Row meeting, Moorfields
  • Pinner Hall meeting, Broad Street
  • Queen Street meeting, Ratcliff
  • Queen Street meeting, Rotherhithe
  • Red Cross Street meeting, Fore Street; Samuel Stockell 1728 to 1750[17]
  • Ropemaker's Alley meeting, Little Moorfields
  • St Michael's Lane meeting, Cannon Street
  • St Saviour's Dockhead meeting, Southwark
  • Staining Lane meeting, Maiden Lane
  • Stepney meeting, Stepney Fields
  • Turners Hall meeting, Philpot Lane
  • White Horse Yard meeting, Duke's Place
  • Zoar Street meeting, Southwark

Baptists

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Listed 33 meeting houses.

  • St John's Court Street meeting, Little Hart Street; Hart Street closed around 1738[18]
  • John Gill at Horselydown, Southwark, from 1720 (ODNB)

Quakers

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Listed 12 meeting houses.

  • Bull and Mouth meeting, St Martin's Le Grand
  • Ewer Street meeting, Southwark
  • Fair Street meeting, Horsleydown
  • Little Almonry meeting, Westminster
  • Peel meeting, St John's Lane
  • Quaker Street meeting, Spitalfields
  • Sandy's Court meeting, Houndsditch
  • School House Lane meeting, Ratcliff
  • Savoy meeting, The Strand
  • Wapping meeting, Wapping
  • White Hart Yard meeting, Gracechurch Street
  • Workhouse meeting, Clerkenwell

Scottish Presbyterians

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Listed three meeting houses.

Chapels of Embassies

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Listed six Catholic chapels.

Other denominations

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Chapels: one Catholic, three non-juror, two Muggletonian, two Camisard, meeting of Orator Henley.

Stranger churches

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Listed 21 Huguenot chapels, two Dutch churches, three Lutheran churches. Plus Danish, Swedish and Russian churches.

Synagogues

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Listed three synagogues

See also

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Notes

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References

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  1. ^ "St Alban Wood Street (CCEd Location ID 11550)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. ^ "St Alban Wood Street with St Olave Silver Street (CCEd Location ID 11551)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Seare, Richardus (1689–1743) (CCEd Person ID 166263)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  4. ^ "All Hallows Barking (CCEd Location ID 11537)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Geekie, William (1721–1767) (CCEd Person ID 207)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Geekie, William (GKY706W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ^ "All Hallows Bread Street (CCEd Location ID 11538)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  8. ^ "All Hallows The Great (CCEd Location ID 11540)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Hussey, Christopher (1713–1761) (CCEd Person ID 275)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Hussey, Christopher (HSY703C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  11. ^ L. Tyerman (1870). The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, Founder of the Methodists. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 548.
  12. ^ "The Surman Index, Bethnal Green, Middlesex". Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  13. ^ Walter Wilson (1814). The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark. p. 368.
  14. ^ "Chapman, Samuel (CHPN649S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  15. ^ "(CCEd Person ID )". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835.
  16. ^ "The Surman Index, Sheffield, William". Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  17. ^ Wilson, Walter (1810). Dissenting Churches. author; sold. p. 311.
  18. ^ Wilson, Walter (1808). "The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark: Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time : With an Appendix on the Origin, Progress, and Present State of Christianity in Britain".
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