St Faith under St Paul's inCastle Baynard Ward was an unusual parish within theCity of London.[2] It originally had its own building to the east of St Paul's Cathedral, serving as a parish church for the residents of St Paul's Churchyard andPaternoster Row, but this was removed in 1256 to allow for the eastern expansion ofthe Cathedral. The parishioners were instead given a space to worship within the cathedral crypt.[3][4]
The parish appears as "St Faith within the monastery of St Paul's, London" in 1381, with mention of John Phelip, as a former parson.[5]
The Church of St. Faith, the crypt of old St. Paul's, from a view byHollar
Until the reign ofEdward VI the parishioners worshipped at the end of the west crypt under St Paul’s Quire.[6]Sir Simonds D'Ewes, the diarist, attended the wedding of his father Paul and his stepmother, Lady Elizabeth Denton, in "St. Faith's under St. Paul's" on 5 March 1623, and Sir Simonds's younger sister Mary also married there on 4 December 1626[7] From the reign of Edward VI until theGreat Fire the parishioners, mostly booksellers in Paternoster Row,[8] transferred to the Jesus Chapel, their separateness emphasised by a screen.[9]
^Harbens, H. A (1918).A Dictionary of London: being notes topographical and historical relating to the streets and principal buildings in the City of London. London: Herbert Jenkins.
^Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/483; year 1381, Term 4;http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no483/483_0233.htm; 6th entry, William Phelip, brother & heir of John Phelip, formerly parson of St Faith, etc.
^Huelin, G. (1996).Vanished Churches of the City of London. London: Guildhall Library Publishing.ISBN0-900422-42-4.
^"The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes," London, 1845, vol. 1, pp. 229, 324.
^A Survey of London, Vol I Stow, J. (Originally, 1598: this edn-London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1890)
^The tombs, monuments, etc., visible in S. Paul's Cathedral (and S. Faith's beneath it) previous to its destruction by fire A.D. 1666 MajorPayne Fisher (Blacker Morgan, G.B. Ed., 1855): London, Privately printed, 1684.
^"The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds,H.: London, Bodley Head, 1922
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