(St.) Mary Mounthaw

(St.) Mary Mounthaw
   On the west side of Old Fish Street Hill, in Queenhithe Ward (Leake, 1666).
   Earliest mention found in records : "St. Mary de Muntenhaut," 1275 (Ct. H.W. I. 25).
   Other forms : "St. Mary de Monte alto," 1298 (ib. 137). "St. Mary de Mounthaut," 1299 (ib. 142). "St. Mary Montenhaut," 1327 (ib. 329). "St. Mary de Mountenhaut," 1361 (ib. ii. 64). "St. Mary de Monte Alto" or "Mounthaunt" (S. 357).
   First built as a chapel for the Mounthaunts, hence the name.
   New built, enlarged, and beautified 1609. Burnt in the Fire and not rebuilt. Parish united to St. Mary Somerset (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 218).
   A Rectory. Patron : Bishop of Hereford. Site enclosed for a burial place ; now occupied by Queen Victoria Street.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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