St Andrew Undershaft with St Mary Axe, London Genealogy

St Andrew, Undershaft, the church of, is situated at the southeast corner of the street called St Mary Axe and Leaden Hall Street. There was a church on this site dedicated to the same site as early as the year 1362, which was pulled down in 1532, and the present church erected in its room, at the expense of William Fitz Williams, who was sheriff in 1507. It derives its name of Undershaft from a very lofty Maypole, anxiously called a shaft, which was annually based in the street near to it on Mayday,