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4 unusual facts about Fenchurch Street


Fenchurch Street

Located at No. 71 is Lloyd's Register of Shipping, where the annual journal Lloyd's Registry was previously published.

The frontage on Fenchurch Street was built in 1901 by Thomas Edward Collcutt and is a Grade II* listed building.

Nearby, the church of St. Gabriel Fenchurch also stood on Fenchurch Street at its junction with Cullum Street.

Nathaniel Hardy

In 1643 he was appointed preacher to the church of St. Dionis, Backchurch, in Fenchurch Street, where he drew together a congregation chiefly of presbyterians.


Minories railway station

Minories was soon supplemented by a new station several hundred yards west, at Fenchurch Street, designed by William Tite.

North London Line City Branch

The company's main headquarters was at Bow, and from there a connection to the London and Blackwall Railway's route allowed the NLR's trains access to a terminus in the City of London, in this case Fenchurch Street.


see also

Arthur Bingham

William Bingham, D.D. (1743–1819), vicar of Great Gaddesden (1777) and rector of Hemel Hempstead (1778) – later archdeacon of London (1789–1813) and chaplain to George III (1792); and his wife Agnata (aka Agnes), daughter of Liebert Dörrien, a merchant of Fenchurch Street, London and of West Ham, Essex.