Talk:St Magnus the Martyr

To Do:
1) Add heading "Famous people associated with the church" and include Miles Coverdale. 2) Discover which saints Michael, Margaret and Thomas were associated with the lost churches of the parish, and link to the articles associated with those saints. (Is there only one Saint Michael?).
 * The saints are St Michael the Archangel, St Margaret of Antioch and St Thomas Becket. Links now added.  Northcote Lea  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Northcote Lea (talk • contribs) 22:31, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

3) The Charles Duncombe who is mentioned as having presented the church organ in 1912 is a bit of a mystery. Was he the same person as the Lord Mayor of London mentioned in the previous sentence? because if he was, his date of death is given as 1711, so 1912 cannot even be a mistake for 1712, unless the organ was given posthumously... Can anyone clarify this? g88keeper (talk) 13:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The date was 1712. Duncombe commissioned the organ shortly before his death in 1711.  Its inauguration, announced in The Spectator, was not until 1712. Northcote Lea  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Northcote Lea (talk • contribs) 22:27, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Period?
Shouldn't there be a period in the article name? "St. Magnus-the-Martyr" feels better. And what about the capital M in Martyr? LarRan (talk) 22:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The link to the parish website (http://www.stmagnusmartyr.org.uk/) shows that the church itself doesn't hyphenate the name. Shouldn't the article name be St. Magnus the Martyr or St. Magnus the Martyr Church? 18:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by GTH1 (talk • contribs)
 * See Category:Churches in the City of London, whoever set them up liked hyphens and didn't like the period. Changing the period requires additional action to override the sort order to make it appear in the list as though you hadn't. So, on that point (pun intended), I wouldn't. There's more latitude with the other suggestion. Kbthompson (talk) 19:02, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The church always uses the form St Magnus the Martyr (no period or hyphens) or St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge Northcote Lea  —Preceding undated comment added 22:19, 14 February 2011 (UTC).

Length of this article
If one looks through the category City of London Churches one soon sees that this article is far and away the longest. Either this article is too long or every other article on City Churches is too short. I would like to see more on every church; but I think this article is too long. Any thoughts? Alanobrien (talk) 12:40, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I had noticed this too. At some point, a lot of additional material was added, which all appears to be relevant. It is the church that used to stand on the direct approach to Old London Bridge. Later on, it was an important focus for the Anglo-Catholic revival of the 1920s. So perhaps it is not surprising that the article is now quite lengthy. As you say, it would be good too see more material on the other churches in the City of London - before the Great Fire of 1666, there were more than a hundred of them. g88keeper (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Rectors
It would be good to have a list of Rectors. They are of significance in the story of an historically important London church. More specifically, it would fill a gap in the 'World War II to 21st century' section: who were the incumbents between 1983 and 2003?

Spodatus (talk) 12:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)