{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use British English|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox church | name = St Mary Bothaw | full_name =

| image = Side of Cannon St Station site of St Mary Bothaw.JPG | image_size = | caption = Current photo of site

| denomination = Anglican, originally Roman Catholic | diocese = | parish = | division = | founded = 10th century | founder = | architect = | style = | years_built = | dedicated = | closed = | demolished = 1666 | bishop = | priest = | dean = | rector = | vicar = | abbot = | pastor = | location = Corner of Cannon Street and Dowgate Hill London | country = England

| website = }}

'''St Mary Bothaw''' (or '''Saint Mary Boatehaw by the Erber'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hibbert |first1=C |last2=Weinreb |first2=D |last3=Keay |first3=J |title=The London Encyclopaedia |year=1983 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5}}</ref>) was a parish church in the Walbrook ward of the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.<ref name=jenk/> However, some of its materials were used in the rebuilding of St Swithin, London Stone, with which parish it was merged.

==Location== The church stood in the Walbrook ward, in a narrow lane just to the south of Candlewick Street<ref name=jenk>{{cite book |last1=Jenkinson |first1=Wilberforce |title= London Churches Before the Great Fire |year=1917 |publisher=Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge |location=London |page=202}}</ref> (now Cannon Street).<ref>Seymour 1733, p.479</ref>

==History== St Mary Bothaw was described by John Stow as a "proper parish church"; he also suggested that "Bothaw" was probably derived from "boat-haw", meaning "boatyard".<ref>{{cite book |last=Stow |first=John |title=Survey of London, Volume I |year=1890 |page=446 |orig-year=1598 |publisher=A.Fullarton & Co}}</ref>

Robert Chichele, Lord Mayor of London, in 1422, was buried in the church. <ref name=ric>{{cite book |last=Newcourt |first=Richard |title=Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense|author-link=Richard Newcourt (historian) |pages=438–439 |year=1708 |volume=1}}</ref> A stained glass window in St Mary's is recorded as showing the arms of Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone, the first Lord Mayor of London, and according to some sources his tomb was also in the church. Stow, however, said that he was buried at the priory of the Holy Trinity in Aldgate.<ref>Seymour 1733, p.483</ref>

==Destruction== Along with the majority of parish churches in the city, St Mary Bothaw was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. A Rebuilding Act was passed in 1670 and a committee set up under Sir Christopher Wren to decide which would be rebuilt;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whinney |first1=Margaret |title=Wren |url=https://archive.org/details/wren00whin |year=1971 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=London |isbn=0-500-20112-9 |url-access=registration }}</ref> St Mary Bothaw was not amongst them. Instead the parish was united to that of St Swithin, London Stone, and some of the materials from St Mary's were used to rebuild that church.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Ancient Records and Antiquities of the Parishes of St. Swithin, London Stone, and St. Mary Bothaw|last=White |first=JG|location= London|publisher=London & Middlesex Archaeological Society|year=1910}}</ref> The site was retained as a churchyard until the Cannon Street Railway Station was built over it in the nineteenth century.<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 |page=[https://archive.org/details/churcheschapelso00whituoft/page/116 116] }}</ref>

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

==Sources== *{{cite book|title=A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent|last=Seymour|first=Robert|year=1733|volume=1|location=London|publisher=T. Read}}

{{Coord|51|30|36|N|0|5|20|W|region:GB_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}}

{{Portal|Christianity}} {{Churches in the City of London}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Mary Bothaw}} Category:10th-century church buildings in England Category:1666 disestablishments in England Category:Churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London and not rebuilt Category:Churches in the City of London Category:Former buildings and structures in the City of London

{{London-Anglican-church-stub}}