CORPUS CHRISTI CHAPEL, ST. LAWRENCE POUNTNEY

   A chapel in the College of St. Laurence Pountney (S. 224).

   Earliest mention: Master, Warden, and Chaplains of the Chapel of Corpus Christi and St. John Baptist, lately built by John de Pulteneye by the church of St. Lawrence in Candlewick Street, 1336 (H. MSS. Com. 9th Rep. App. p. 2).

   Advowson belonged to Edmund de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk and on his attainder to the Crown. Granted 1506 to Ed. Duke of Buckingham, and on his attainder reverted to the Crown, 1521 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 76).

   Surrendered temp. Edward VI. (S. 224).

   The chapel seems to have been actually in the mansion house of Sir John de Pulteney, and was known afterwards as the Collegiate Chapel of Corpus Christi, or the College of St. Lawrence Pountney.

   See St. Lawrence Pountney College.