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{{Short description|Former church-site in London, England}}
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'''Holy Trinity the Less''' was a parish church in Knightrider Street in the [[City of London]], destroyed in the [[Great Fire of London]].<ref>[[John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)|John Rogers]] was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] here from 1532 to 1534 > "The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C; Weinreb,D; Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993, 2008) {{ISBN|978-1405049245}}</ref> Following the fire the site was used for a Lutheran church, which was eventually demolished in 1871 to make way for Mansion House underground station.

==Location==
The church stood in Queenhithe ward, towards the eastern end of [[Knightrider Street]], on the south side.<ref name=ric>{{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}}</ref>

==History==
The church was medieval in origin, and [[John Stow]] traced its roots back to 1266.<ref>Stow, John ''A Survey of London'': Originally 1598- this edn, London, A. Fullarton & Co, 1890</ref> [[John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)|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<ref name=white>{{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 }}</ref> at the expense of the Merchant Taylor's and Vintner's Companies.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The patronage of the church belonged to the Prior and convent of [[St Mary Overie]], Southwark, until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|Dissolution]], after which it passed to the Crown and then to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral.<ref name=ric/> The parish clerk in the 1550s, [[Henry Machyn]], wrote a journal of London events.<ref>Adam Smyth, ''Autobiography in Early Modern England'' (Cambridge, 2010), p. 202.</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Holy Trinity the Less was not among the 51 chosen.<ref>{{cite book|title=The City of London Churches|last=Betjeman|first=John|location= Andover|publisher= Pitkin|year=1967|isbn= 0853725659}}</ref> Instead the parish was united with that of [[St Michael Queenhithe]].<ref>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}}</ref>

[[File:11b. Holy Trinity the Less & St Mary Aldermary.jpg|thumb|Parish boundary markers for Holy Trinity the Less & St Mary Aldermary]]
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 tube station|Mansion House underground station]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> The churchyard was cleared in 1872 to make room for the station.

==See also==
{{Portal|Christianity}}

==References==
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{{Churches in the City of London}}

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