[2] Named after its first benefactor,[3] it was a prosperous parish[4] able to support a grammar school,[5] which was rebuilt on the site after the fire and continued in that locality until 1787.

[6] By 1670 a Rebuilding Act had been passed and a committee set up under of Sir Christopher Wren to plan the new parishes.

[7] Fifty-one were chosen, but St Mary Colechurch was one of the minority not to be rebuilt.

[8] The parish was united with St Mildred, Poultry, although the parishioners objected on the grounds that This was a noisy, crowded parish perpetually disturbed by carts and coaches, and wants sufficient place for burials.

[11] C. W. Pearce[12] notes that the last traces of any building vanished in 1839 although a Parish Boundary Mark inside the Mercers’ Hall still exists.