French Church

French Church
   1) On the north side of Threadneedle Street, in Broad Street Ward (Leake, 1666-Elmes, 1831).
   It occupied the site of St. Antony's Hospital (q.v.), and was given to the French Protestants in London, temp. Queen Elizabeth. It was destroyed in the Great Fire 1666, but rebuilt, and was regarded as the principal church of the French Protestants in London.
   It was pulled down about 1840 for the formation of new approaches to the Royal Exchange, and the site is now occupied by the Comptoir National d'Escompt de Paris.
   2) See St. Martin Orgar.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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