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The Church of St Mary-le-Bow (/ b oʊ /) is a Church of England parish church in the City of London, England. Located on Cheapside , one of the city's oldest thoroughfares, the church was founded in 1080, by Lanfranc , Archbishop of Canterbury . [ 1 ]
The Arches Court's permanent home is St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London. The Arches Court or Court of Arches, presided over by the Dean of Arches, is an ecclesiastical court of the Church of England covering the Province of Canterbury. Its equivalent in the Province of York is the Chancery Court.
It detailed the history of the City of Durham from medieval times to the present day. The museum was located in the redundant church of St Mary-le-Bow, close to the World Heritage Site of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle, [1] which is bounded on the north and east by Hatfield College; on the south by Bow Lane, and the west by North Bailey.
It is also the site of the 'Bow Bells', the church of St Mary-le-Bow, which has played a part in London's Cockney heritage and the tale of Dick Whittington. Geoffrey Chaucer grew up around Cheapside and there are a scattering of references to the thoroughfare and its environs throughout his work.
The customary English theatre story, adapted from the life of the real Richard Whittington, is that the young boy Dick Whittington was an unhappy apprentice running away from his master, and heard the tune ringing from the bell tower of the church of St Mary-le-Bow in London in 1392. [5]
The church of St Mary-le-Bow The church of St Mary-le-Bow is one of the oldest, largest, and historically most important churches in the City of London. The definition based on being born within earshot of the bells, [ 28 ] cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry , reflects the early definition of the term as relating to all of London.
The earliest known prose rendition is The Famous and Remarkable History of Sir Richard Whittington by "T. H." (Thomas Heywood), published 1656 in chapbook form, which specified that the bells were those of Bow Church (St Mary-le-Bow), and that the boy heard them at Bunhill.
St Margaret Pattens: St Gregory by St Paul's: Close to the southwest wall of Old St. Paul's: St Martin, Ludgate: St John the Baptist upon Walbrook: Cloak Lane (west side), Cannon Street: St Antholin, Budge Row [6] St John the Evangelist: Watling Street at Friday Street St Mary-le-Bow (ibid) St John Zachary: Gresham Street (north side) St Anne ...