St Michael Cornhill
City of London, Greater London
The church lies over the remains of the Basilica, the northern most part of the great Roman Forum built in the first century AD.
Originally a cruciform monastic church or chapel for the castle, it became a parish church in the 13th century.
The nave, with its unmistakably Norman south doorway, and the crossing (now the chancel) have survived from the original church. The chancel arch has Norman carvings on the capitals.
The tower dates from a substantial 18th century renovation programme commissioned by the Vicar of the time, Thomas Green, who died in 1789 and is commemorated, with his wife and daughter, in one of the monuments in the church.