The street of Austin Friars, off Old Broad Street, takes its name from the Augustinian Priory that once stood nearby. In 1253 it was the main Augustinian monastery in medieval England.
The priory was attacked during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, when 13 Flemings were dragged from its sanctuary and beheaded.
During the dissolution, Thomas Cromwell had a house here (featured in Wolf Hall) from the 1520s until his execution for treason in 1540.
In 1550 it was given to Dutch Protestant refugees. It survived the Great Fire in1666, but destroyed in another fire in 1862, rebuilt in 1863, destroyed again in a Blitz air raid in1940, and rebuilt again in 1950-56.
The present Dutch Church is alive and well with a service in Dutch each Sunday
St Margaret Lothbury
The earliest mention of St Margaret Lothbury is from 1185. Lost in the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Chrstopher Wren in 1692.
Its choir screen, one of only two in a Wren church, was erected originally in the Church of All Hallows the Great, Thames St. The pulpit sounding board is also from All Hallows.
Some paintings and statues are originally from St Christopher-le-Stocks, Threadneedle St. Several monuments, are from St Olave Old Jewry.
It is the church of five livery companies; the Armourers and Brasiers, the Glovers of London, the Tylers and Bricklayers, the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers and the Scientific Instrument Makers)
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