The Lost Memorials of London; the shrine of St Erkenwald, Old St Pauls Cathedral

St. Erkenwald (c630-693) founder of Barking abbey, Abbott of Chertsey and Bishop of London, once a great English saint, is now almost forgotten. His magnificent shrine stood behind the high altar in Old St Pauls and, according to Walter Thornbury in Volume 1 of Old & New London (1878) was “a source of wealth and power to the cathedral”; Foremost among the relics were two arms of St. Mellitus…