Editing St Martin-in-the-Fields (section)

===Medieval and Tudor===
[[Image:Stmartins 1562.jpg|thumb|left|St Martin-in-the-Fields and [[Charing Cross]], circa 1562]]

The earliest extant reference to the church is from 1222, when there was a dispute between the [[Abbot of Westminster]] and the [[Bishop of London]] as to who had control over it. The [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] decided in favour of Westminster, and the monks of [[Westminster Abbey]] began to use it.<ref name=give/>

[[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] rebuilt the church in 1542 to keep plague victims in the area from having to pass through his [[Palace of Whitehall]]. At this time it was literally "in the fields", occupying an isolated position between the cities of Westminster and [[City of London|London]].
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