{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox church | name = St Andrew Hubbard | full_name =
| image = 16 Eastcheap site of St Andrew Hubbard.JPG | image_size = | caption = Current photo of site
| denomination = Church of England | diocese = | parish = | division = | founded = | founder = | architect = | style = | years_built = | dedicated = | closed = | demolished = 1666 | bishop = | priest = | dean = | rector = | vicar = | abbot = | pastor = | location = Rope Lane (now Lovat Lane), London | country = England | website = }}
thumb|Parish boundary mark. '''St Andrew Hubbard''' was a parish church in the Billingsgate ward of the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt.
==History== The church stood in the Billingsgate ward of the City of London. The east end of the church adjoined Rope Lane, later known as Lucas Lane and then Love Lane;<ref name=ric/> it is now called Lovat Lane.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ben Johnson's London : A Jacobean Place Name Dictionary|year=2009|publisher=University Of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820332918|page=122|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPLExnmXvCYC&pg=PA122}}</ref> It took its name from Hubert, a mediaeval benefactor.<ref name=ric/> Its parish records are among the most detailed in the United Kingdom,<ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=48FF26D6E81ADF707DFF2E3546E8D44B.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=102251 Parish records analysed]</ref> and have been extensively researched.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Church records of St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap c1450-1570|editor=Burgess, C.|location=London|publisher= London Record Society|year=1999 |isbn=0-900952-34-2}}</ref>
The church was repaired and "richly beautified" in 1630, at a cost to the parishioners of more than £600.<ref name=ric/> It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. Instead the parish was united with that of St Mary-at-Hill<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|author1=Hibbert, C |author2=Weinreb, D |author3=Keay, J |location=London|publisher=Pan Macmillan|orig-date=1983 |date=2008 |version=Revised |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5}}</ref> and the site sold to the city authorities. Part of the land was used to widen the roadway, and the rest to build the Royal Weigh House.<ref name=ric/> A parish vestry was built at the east end of the weighhouse, beneath which were "a Portico, Publick Stocks, a Cage, and a Little Room".<ref name=ric>{{cite book|title=Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense|author-link=Richard Newcourt (historian)|last=Newcourt|first=Richard|location=London|pages=263–5|year=1708|volume=1}}</ref>
A Parish boundary mark can be found in nearby Philpot Lane. Today Citibank occupies part of the site.<ref> {{cite book|title=Vanished Churches of the City of London |last=Huelin |first=Gordon| year= 1996 |publisher= Guildhall Library Publishing |location=London |isbn=0-900422-42-4 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Coord|51|30|36|N|0|5|0|W|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title}} {{Churches in the City of London}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Andrew Hubbard}} Category:Churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London and not rebuilt Category:Churches in the City of London Category:1666 disestablishments in England
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