St Michael Royal with St Martin Vintry, London Genealogy

St Michael Royal with St Martin Vintry,the church of, stands on the eastern side of College Hill, Upper Thames Street. It derives its name from its patron saint and from its contguity to the Tower Royal, that stood anciently at the upper or northern end of College Hill. It was a spacious, strongly fortified and magnificent mansion, belonging to the kings of England and supposed to have been founded by Henry I. The church... Has been a rectory from a very ancient date, and the patronage was in the prior and Canada's of Canterbury as early as 1285...