St Benet Sherehog

From 1619 Adams was responsible not only for St Benet, Paul's Wharf but also another small church, St Benet Sherehog, a medieval church built before 1111. It was situated at 1 Poultry in Cordwainer Ward (Bucklesbury EC4) in the then wool-dealing district of the City of London (a shere hog is a castrated ram after first-shearing). It was one of the 86 churches destroyed in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt. The parish was united to St Stephen Walbrook in 1670 but continued to be represented by its own churchwarden. Some of its parish records survive and have been collated. Known as the “Lost Church of St Benet” it was excavated 1994-1996 before the current office block was erected.