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A site of worship for at least 1000 years, but when the crypt was excavated Roman remains were found so the site could have been in use for much longer still.

The present building was consecrated in 1623 having been built to the designs of Inigo Jones.

The church of St Mary the Virgin lies at the centre of an ancient parish within an Anglo-Saxon royal estate and on the site of a late Anglo-Saxon minster from 950 or earlier.

There has been a church on this site since Saxon times, but the present building dates from 1450.

This parish church is the oldest Norman church in London still in weekly use. It stands in solemn grandeur in a 9 acre churchyard, now managed as a nature reserve.

The history of St Patrick’s is, shall we say, colourful.

In the words of Pevsner, to enter The Annunciation is like discovering 'a fragment of a major medieval church'.

One of the few surviving medieval City churches in London, the foundation date of the church is unknown, but it was first recorded in 1250 as the church of St Adelburga the Virgin.