Holy Trinity the Less

The church stood in Queenhithe ward, towards the eastern end of Knightrider Street, on the south side.{{cite book|chapter=Trinity the Less, Rectory|title=Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense|author-link=Richard Newcourt (historian)|last=Newcourt|first=Richard|location=London|year=1708|page=555}}

The church was medieval in origin, and John Stow traced its roots back to 1266.Stow, John A Survey of London: Originally 1598- this edn, London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1890 John Rogers (who would later translate parts of the Bible editor and be martyred) was rector from 1532 to 1534. By 1606, it had fallen into a ruinous state and had to be propped up. It was subsequently demolished and rebuilt{{cite book |last1=White |first1=J.G. |title=The Churches and Chapels of Old London |url=https://archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft|year=1901 |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft/page/59 59]–60 }} at the expense of the Merchant Taylor's and Vintner's Companies.{{cite web|title=Holy Trinity the Less: City of London|website=AIM25|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/118/15615.htm|access-date=15 April 2016}} The patronage of the church belonged to the Prior and convent of St Mary Overie, Southwark, until the Dissolution, after which it passed to the Crown and then to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral. The parish clerk in the 1550s, Henry Machyn, wrote a journal of London events.Adam Smyth, Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010), p. 202.

Along with most of the other parish churches in the City, Holy Trinity was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Four years later, a Rebuilding Act was passed and a committee set up under Sir Christopher Wren to decide which ones should be rebuilt.{{cite book|title=Wren|author=Whinney, Margaret|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=1971|isbn=0500201129|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wren00whin}} Holy Trinity the Less was not among the 51 chosen.{{cite book|title=The City of London Churches|last=Betjeman|first=John|location= Andover|publisher= Pitkin|year=1967|isbn= 0853725659}} Instead the parish was united with that of St Michael Queenhithe.A separate churchwarden was appointed for former Holy Trinity worshippers Church of England, Parish of St. Michael Queenhithe. – Rough registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1694. – M0013822CL. – M0003091CL cited in "City of London Parish Registers Guide 4" Hallows, A.(Ed) : London, Guildhall Library Research, 1974 {{ISBN|0900422300}}

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The site of the burnt-out Anglican church was used for a German Lutheran church, which opened in 1673. It survived until 1871 when it was closed and demolished to make way for the Mansion House underground station.{{cite web |url=http://www.lutheran.org.uk/history_detailed.php |title=The history of Lutherans in Britain |publisher=Lutheran Council of Great Britain |access-date=24 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025202710/http://www.lutheran.org.uk/history_detailed.php |archive-date=25 October 2014 |url-status=dead }} The churchyard was cleared in 1872 to make room for the station.

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