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The specific enactment was the New Churches in London and Westminster Act (9 Anne c. 17).


CHURCHES BUILT

Most of the churches were designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor , with John James , Thomas Archer and James Gibbs also participating.


St Mary Woolnoth was rebuilt from 1716-24.

The Commission funded in part five other churches - St George Gravesend , St George The Martyr Southwark , St Giles In The Fields , St Mary Magdalen Woolwich and St Michael Cornhill . It bought and altered St George The Martyr Holborn and bought St John Clerkenwell .


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