St Margaret Pattens in London

St Margaret Pattens is a Church of England in London which was dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch. The original wooden church built here dates from the 11th Century. The church was later rebuilt from stone, but was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and rebuit again by Sir Christopher Wren in 1687. It is the only church Wren designed in Medieval style and with a 200-ft high spire, his third highest. Its simple rectangular interior houses 17th-century canopied pews, the only kind in London. A 'punishmet box' is also found in church, where wrongdoers sit during services, indicated by a carved Devil’s head in the pews.

The church's name is said to have derived from pattens, or wooden overshoes which later were soled with raised iron rings, which better enabled people to walk about the muddy streets of London. The church, and its name, has been associated with the livery company, the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers for many years. However, some think the church's name actually commemorates the benefactor Ranulf Patin, a canon at St Paul’s Cathedral during the Medieval period.