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Historical Background
Click here to read a contemporary description of the parishes within the environs of the City of London from James Elmes,  Topographical Dictionary of London (published in 1831). Each parish is listed under the name of the patron saint to which it was dedicated, i.e. St Mary Abchurch, will be listed under the "M" section under "Mary", or, St Lawrence Jewery will be listed under the "L" section under "Lawrence", and St Andrew Holborn, under the "A" section under "Andrew".

Click here to read a description of the City of London from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (published in 1870-72). 

Photographs of many of London's churches may be viewed online at the Friends of the City Churches website. (See Indexes of Churches.)

Parishes
Click on parishes by the name of patron saint to which it was dedicated.

All Hallows Barking· All Hallows Bread Street· All Hallows Honey Lane· All Hallows Lombard Street· All Hallows London Wall· All Hallows Staining· All Hallows the Great· All Hallows the Less· Barnard's Inn· Christ Church Newgate Street· Furnival's Inn· Holy Trinity the Less· Holy Trinity Minories· Lambe's Chapel· St Alban Wood Street· St Alphage London Wall· St Andrew by the Wardrobe· St Andrew Holborn· St Andrew Hubbard· St Andrew Undershaft · St Ann Blackfriars · St Ann and St Agnes ·St Antholin · St Augustine· St Bartholomew by the Exchange· St Bartholomew the Great· St Bartholomew the Less· St Benet Fink· St Benet Gracechurch· St Benet Paul's Wharf· St Benet Sherehog· St Botolph Billingsgate· St Botolph Aldersgate· St Botolph without Aldgate· St Botolph without Bishopsgate· St Bride Fleet Street· St Christopher le Stocks· St Clement Eastcheap· St Dionis Backchurch· St Dunstan in the East· St Dunstan in the West· St Edmund the King· St Ethelburga· St Faith· St Gabriel Fenchurch· St George· St Giles without Cripplegate· St Gregory by St Paul· St Helen Bishopsgate· St James Duke's Place· St James Garlickhithe· St John the Baptist upon Wallbrook· St John the Evangelist· St John Zachary· St Katherine by Tower Precinct· St Katherine Coleman· St Katherine Cree· St Lawrence Jewry· St Lawrence Pountney· St Leonard Eastcheap· St Leonard Foster Lane· St Magnus the Martyr· St Margaret New Fish Street· St Margaret Lothbury· St Margaret Moses· St Margaret Pattens· St Martin Ludgate· St Martin Orgar· St Martin Outwich· St Martin Pomeroy· St Martin Vintry· St Mary Abchurch· St Mary Aldermanbury· St Mary Aldermary· St Mary at Hill· St Mary Axe·St Mary Bothaw· St Mary Colechurch· St Mary le Bow· St Mary Magdalene Milk Street· St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street· St Mary Mounthaw· St Mary Somerset· St Mary Staining· St Mary Woolchurch Haw· St Mary Woolnoth· St Matthew Friday Street· St Michael Bassishaw· St Michael Cornhill· St Michael Crooked Lane· St Michael le Querne· St Michael Paternoster Royal· St Michael Queenhithe· St Michael Wood Street· St Mildred Bread Street· St Mildred Poultry· St Nicholas Acons· St Nicholas Cole Abbey· St Nicholas Olave· St Olave Hart Street· St Olave Old Jewry· St Olave Silver Street· St Pancras Soper Lane· St Paul's Cathedral· St Peter Cheap· St Peter Cornhill· St Peter le Poer· St Peter Paul's Wharf· St Sepulchre· St Stephen Coleman Street· St Stephen Walbrook· St Swithun London Stone· St Thomas the Apostle· St Vedast Foster Lane· Staple Inn· Thavie's Inn· The Temple

Records
Just about all of the City of London's parishes, Inns of court, and liberty precincts are held at the Guildhall Library, London. Also, because these registers (to CMBs) have largely been transcribed and published in books over the past century, copies of these may be available at:


 * books.google.com.
 * The Guildhall Library, London
 * The Society of Genealogists, London
 * The National Archives, UK
 * The British Library, London
 * The Family History Library (&amp; its satellite family history centers have access to the 90 percent held at the FHL)
 * Pallot's Marriage Index
 * Boyd's Marriage Index
 * Crisp's London Marriage Licences
 * Major research libraries and other archives in the UK and abroad
 * Christening and marriage data has just about been completely transcribed and indexed and made available for most of the above 90 percent of the City of London's parish register holdings at the FHL and, now are available online in the IGI (International Genealogical Index) at FamilySearch.org. The parishes and their parish register data which have not currently been posted online in the IGI, include the following ones:


 * 1) All Hallows Barking
 * 2) All Hallows Lombard Street
 * 3) St Alphage
 * 4) St Bartholomew the Less
 * 5) St Benet Gracechurch
 * 6) St Dunstan in the West
 * 7) St Katherine Coleman
 * 8) St Leonard Foster Lane
 * 9) St Michael le Querne
 * 10) St Michael Crooked Lane
 * 11) St Nicholas Olave
 * 12) St Olave Silver Street
 * 13) St Paul's Cathedral
 * 14) The Temple
 * 15) Most of the Inns, liberties


 * Webb, Cliff. Some London Burials, Post-1812. 1979. . Includes the churches of Allhallows, Lombard Street; St. Dionis Backchurch; St. Magnus, the Martyr; St. Mary at Hill; St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street; St. Michael Paternoster Royal; Allhallows Staining; St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate; St. Dunstan in the East; St. James Garlickhythe; Allhallows the Great and Less United; St. Mary Aldermanbury; and St. Michael Bassishaw.
 * Marrying London by Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes: 'Penny Weddings'

Michael Gandy has concluded that even though most Londoners baptized their children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many were actually irreligious and simply performed this Christian ceremony in order to qualify their children for poor relief.

Family History Library
The Family History Library has just over 90 percent of the City of London's original parish registers on microfilm. These can circulated to any one of its 4500 family history centers worldwide.

Maps and Gazetteers
England Jurisdictions 1851 maps are based on multiple sources produced about 1851. Parish boundaries, contiguous parishes, civil registration districts and more are in this Web site. Go here to find a map for Pilton.

Web Sites

 * Anglican Churches, Chapels and Parishes. Records of Anglican Parishes, Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section