French Church
Names
- French Church
Street/Area/District
- Threadneedle Street
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): French Church
- 1560 London (Jansson, 1657): French Church
- 1666 London after the fire (Bowen, 1772): French Church
- 1720 London (Strype): French Church
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): French Church
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): French Church
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
French Church
On the north side of Threadneedle Street, in Broad Street Ward (Leake, 1666–Elmes, 1831).
It occupied the site of St. Antony's Hospital (q.v.), and was given to the French Protestants in London, temp. Queen Elizabeth. It was destroyed in the Great Fire 1666, but rebuilt, and was regarded as the principal church of the French Protestants in London.
It was pulled down about 1840 for the formation of new approaches to the Royal Exchange, and the site is now occupied by the Comptoir National d'Escompt de Paris.