Churches in London - City of London

City of London

Further information: Churches in the City of London

The City of London is not a London Borough, but while being a ceremonial county in its own right, is within Greater London. In 1666 there were 96 parishes within the bounds of the City. Today the following continue Christian witness in one form or another in the heart of London.

Church name Location Denomination Address Website Built
All Hallows-by-the-Tower Tower Hill Church of England Byward Street website 675
All Hallows-on-the-Wall London Wall Church of England London Wall website 1767
All Hallows Staining (partly destroyed) Langbourn Roman Catholic, Church of England - - -
Christ Church Greyfriars (also known as Christ Church Newgate; partly destroyed) Newgate Church of England - - 1306–1348
City Temple Holborn Viaduct United Reformed Church - - 1640
Dutch Church Broad Street Ward United Reformed Church Austin Friars www.dutchchurch.org.uk 1550
London City Presbyterian Church Aldersgate Presbyterian, Free Church of Scotland Aldersgate Street website
Romanian Orthodox Church Fleet Street Romanian Orthodox St Dunstan in the West, 186 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2HR
Redeemed Christian Church Of God London Pentecostal Holiday Inn London - Kensington Forum 97 Cromwell Rd, SW7 4DN website
St Alban (tower remains) Bassishaw Ward Church of England Wood Street - -
St Alphage (ruins) Bassishaw Church of England - - -
St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe Blackfriars Church of England Queen Victoria Street website 1695
St Andrew Holborn Church of England 5 St. Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AB website 1690
St Andrew Undershaft Aldgate Church of England St Mary Axe - 1532
St Anne and St Agnes Barbican Church of England, let to Lutheran Church Gresham Street website 1680
St Augustine (partly destroyed) St Paul's Church of England Watling Street - unknown
St Bartholomew-the-Great West Smithfield Church of England (founded as Augustinian priory - - 1123
St Bartholomew-the-Less St Bartholomew's Hospital Church of England - - -
St Benet Queenhithe Welsh Episcopalian - - 1683
St Botolph Aldersgate Church of England (founded as Cluniac priory) Aldersgate Street - -
St Botolph Aldgate Church of England - - 1791
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Bishopsgate Church of England (also used by Antiochian Orthodox Church) - - 1729
St Bride Fleet Street Church of England Fleet Street - 1698
St Clement Eastcheap Church of England Clements Lane, London, EC4N 7HB website 1687
St Dunstan-in-the-East (partly destroyed) Tower Hill Church of England St Dunstan's Hill - -
St Dunstan-in-the-West Fleet Street Church of England Fleet Street - 1833
St Edmund, King and Martyr Lombard Street Disused Church of England, now base for London Centre for Spirituality Lombard Street - 1679
St Ethelburga Bishopsgate Church of England - - c.1411
St Giles-without-Cripplegate Barbican Church of England Barbican complex - c.1550
St Helen Bishopsgate Church of England Bishopsgate - 13th Century
St James Garlickhythe Vintry Ward Church of England - - 1683
St Katherine Cree Aldgate Church of England Leadenhall Street - 1631
St Lawrence Jewry Guildhall Church of England Gresham Street - 1687
St Magnus-the-Martyr London Bridge Church of England Lower Thames Street website 1676
St Margaret Bank Church of England Lothbury - 1690
St Margaret Pattens Monument Church of England Eastcheap - 1687
St Martin Ludgate Hill, Farringdon Church of England Ludgate Hill - 1687
St Mary Abchurch Cannon Street Church of England Cannon Street - 1686
St Mary Aldermary Mansion House Church of England Watling Street - 1682
St Mary-at-Hill Billingsgate Church of England Lovat Lane - 1676
St Mary-le-Bow Cheapside Church of England - - 1683
St Mary Moorfields Moorfields Roman Catholic 4-5 Eldon Street, London EC2M 7LS website 1903
St Mary Somerset (tower remains) Queenhithe Church of England - - -
St Mary Woolnoth Bank Church of England Corner of Lombard Street and King William Street - 1727
St Michael Cornhill Church of England - - 1672
St Michael Paternoster Royal Cannon Street Church of England College Hill, London EC4R - 1694
St Nicholas Cole Abbey Mansion House Church of England Queen Victoria Street - 1677
St Olave Tower Ward Church of England Corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane - c.1450
St Olave Old Jewry (tower remains) Bank Church of England St Olave's Place - -
St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Church of England St Paul's Church Yard - 1677
St Peter upon Cornhill Bishopsgate Church of England Corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street - 1682
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate (also known as Church of the Holy Sepulchre) Holborn Church of England Holborn Viaduct - 1682
St Stephen Walbrook Mansion House Church of England - - 1677
St Thomas Queen Victoria Street Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church St Mary Aldermary, Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4M 9BW website
St Vedast-alias-Foster St Paul's Church of England Foster Lane - 1673
Temple Church Inner Temple Church of England Inner Temple - 12th century

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