St. Mary Staining was a parish church in Oat Lane,[1] northeast ofSt. Paul's Cathedral, in theCity of London. First recorded in the 12th century, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.
Nikolaus Pevsner found a "few battered tombstones" in nearby Oat Lane.[5] Since 1965 its site has been aCity of London Corporation garden, containing a historic tree; an adjacent office block was built semi-circular so as not to damage it.
^"London:the City Churches” Pevsner, N/Bradleys New Haven, Yale, 1998ISBN0-300-09655-0
^Gordon Huelin in his "Vanished Churches of the City of London" (London, Guildhall Library Publishing, 1996ISBN0-900422-42-4) gives two further possibilities: that it was named after the painter stainers who lived in the area inmedieval times or that the name derives From theSaxon word for "stone".
^Cobb, G. (1942).The Old Churches of London. London: Batsford.
^Hibbert, C; Weinreb, D; Keay, J (2008) [1983].The London Encyclopaedia (Revised ed.). London: Pan Macmillan.ISBN978-1-4050-4924-5.
^Pevsner, Nikolaus; Bradley, Simon (1998).London:the City Churche. New Haven: Yale.ISBN0-300-09655-0.
