According to John Richardson’s “Annals of London”, the first written record of the church of St Martin Outwich on Threadneedle Street dates to eight hundred years ago, to 1217.

The church survived the Great Fire of London in 1666, but was damaged in another fire in 1765, and, although subsequently rebuilt in 1796, was eventually demolished in 1874.

At this time, the tomb of one of its  benefactors, John de Oteswich, who is thought to have died in circa 1400, was relocated to the nearby church of St Helen, Bishopsgate.

At the same time, other Medieval remains were reinterred in Ilford Cemetery, including those  of one Abigail Vaughan, who in her will had left four shillings to the parish to buy faggots to burn heretics!