[5] The church was in existence by 1279, when William de Hamkynton was recorded as becoming rector following the death of Adam Lambyn.

[6] According to some sources, St Mary's also contained the tomb of Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone, the first Lord Mayor of London, and his coat-of-arms was in a stained-glass window there.

[8] 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;[9] St Mary Bothaw was not amongst them.

[10] The site was retained as a churchyard until the Cannon Street Railway Station was built over it in the nineteenth century.