St. Paul's Shadwell
Names
- St. Paul's Shadwell
Street/Area/District
- Shadwell High Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): St. Paul's Shadwell
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): St. Paul's Shadwell Church
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): St. Paul Shadwell
Descriptions
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
St. Paul’s Shadwell, owes its existence to the increase of buildings. Shadwell, though now joined to London, was anciently a hamlet belonging to Stepney; but being greatly increased in the number of its inhabitants, Thomas Neale, Esq; erected the present church in the year 1656 for their accommodation; and in 1669, this district was by act of parliament constituted a distinct parish from that of Stepney, and 120l. per annum was granted for the maintenance of the Rector in lieu of tithes, besides a considerable glebe, oblations and church dues, so that the living is worth about 324l. a year. Maitland.
This church, which is but a mean edifice built with brick, is eighty-seven feet long, and sixty-three broad; the height to the roof is twenty-eight feet, and that of the steeple sixty. The body has a few windows with rustic arches, and some very mean ones in the roof. At the corners of the building are balls placed on a kind of small pedestals. The tower is carried up without ornament, and is terminated with balls at the corners in the same manner as the body of the church, and is crowned with a plain low turret.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
St. Paul's Church, Shadwell,—on the S. side of Shadwell High-st. about ⅓ of a mile on the R. east of St. George's church.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
St. Paul, Shadwell, the church of, is on the south side of Shadwell High-street, or Upper Shadwell, between Shakspeare's-walk and Fox's-lane. It owes its origin to the vast increase of buildings on that side of the Thames, for though it is now completely joined to London, it was formerly a hamlet belonging to Stepney; but owing to the increase of inhabitants, Thomas Neale erected the present church in 1656, for their accommodation; and in 1669, this district was constituted by act of parliament into a distinct parish.
It is a rectory, in the county of Middlesex, in the diocese of London, exempt from archidiaconal visitation, and in the patronage of the Dean of St. Paul's. The present incumbent is the Rev. Charles Webb Le Bas, Prebendary of Lincoln, and Vicar of Darfield, who was instituted in 1812.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Paul's (St.), Shadwell, High Street, a parish so called, as belonging to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, who are patrons thereof,1 and separated from Stepney by an Act passed March 17, 1669–1670. The church was consecrated March 12, 1670–1671; taken down in 1817; and the present church designed by James Walters (d. 1821); consecrated April 5, 1821. Of the old church there are views in Wilkinson's Londina. Bishop Butler, as Dean of St. Paul's, nominated his nephew and namesake, Joseph Butler, to the rectory of this parish. He liked it so little that he chose for the text of his first sermon, "Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar." A canonry in St. Paul's and permission to reside in Norfolk Street, Strand, so far reconciled him to his fate that he managed to hold the rectory fifty-seven years.