(St.) Peter le Poor

(St.) Peter le Poor
   On the West side of Old Broad Street. In Broad Street Ward (O.S.).
   Earliest mention found in records: In inquisition of 1181 in MSS. D. and C. St. Paul's (H. MSS. Com. 9th Rep. p.68).
   Various names and forms of name: "Sancti Petri de Bradestrate," 31 Ed. I. (Lib. Cust. I. 233), and in the 14th cent. (Ct. H.W. I. 98, II. 6, 88). " St. Peter de Bradstrete" at the Augustinian Friars, 1349 (ib. I. 545). "St. Peter Paupertatis," 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIX. Pt. I. p.615). "Petir the Poure" (Arnold's Chronicle, 1500-21, pp.76 and 254).
   Enlarged in 1615 on the west side, and repaired 1615-30 and again in 1716 (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. ii. 112 and 113).
   Escaped the Great Fire, but taken down and rebuilt 1788-92 further back, as it overhung the roadway.
   United to St. Michael Cornhill (P.O. Directory) and the church taken down, the site being now occupied by offices and chambers.
   A Rectory. Patrons: the Canons of St. Paul.
   Stow describes the church as next to Pawlet House and called the Poore "for a difference from other of that name, sometime peradventure a poore Parish" (S. 178).
   It does not seem to have been so described prior to the 16th century.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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