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The Friends of the City Churches offers a variety of merchandise, inspired by the historic churches of the ancient City of London, including silk ties, bone china mugs, canvas tote bags, FCC badges and cards, as well as our own comprehensive guides and other selected publications.

To order by post, please download an order form (PDF). You can print and post this to: FCC Merchandise, St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BA. Alternatively, the form can be completed on-screen with a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat, for e-mailing directly to contact_us@london-city-churches.org.uk.

Merchandise orders are fulfilled by volunteers at St Mary Abchurch; we thank you for your support and consideration as some orders may thus take slightly longer than usual to fulfil.


Silk Ties

High-quality, lined silk ties in a choice of colours, with profiles of City of London churches including St Andrew Holborn, St Benet Paul’s Wharf (St Benet Welsh Church), St Lawrence Jewry, St Magnus the Martyr, St Martin Ludgate, St Nicholas Cole Abbey and St Stephen Walbrook.

£20 each, postage & packing £1.65

Four colours of Friends silk ties


Umbrellas

The umbrella illustrates the painted dome of St Mary Abchurch by William Snow c1708. The image covers the inside of the long crook-handled walking umbrella, which has a rugged black exterior.


Large crook-handled walking umbrella, automatic opening, £30 (collection only)

FCC church umbrellas


Enamel lapel badge

Friends lapel badge  Enamel lapel badge with the west face of St Magnus the Martyr, £2, p&p £1.05


BOOKS

FCC Visitors Guide
The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches
Tony Tucker, £10 paperback, postage & packing £1.65

This authoritative pocket guide describes the 40 historic Anglican churches still flourishing within the ancient City of London, as well as seven of other denominations, and seven towers and two ruins which mark churches lost to wartime bombing and urban redevelopment. This invaluable guide includes a brief historical overview, a map and foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins. The uniform layout describes each of the principal churches in a two-page spread, with key points on the architecture, interior and history of each. With meticulous research by City Guide Tony Tucker, this updated third edition is the most reliable handbook available on the City churches, packed with information and illustrated with full-colour photographs throughout.

FCC Sword Rests

Sword Rests of the City
Tony Tucker, £10 paperback, postage & packing £1.65

Sword rests are a unique symbol of wealth and power found in 26 historic churches within the City of London, where they are designed to hold the Lord Mayor’s ceremonial sword prominently in view during official visits. Altogether, 58 survive in London churches, livery company halls and museums, far more than the rest of the country put together. City Guide Tony Tucker has researched and photographed every one, building on the work of the late Clifford Bamfield. This 64-page guide, richly illustrated with full-page colour photographs, describes each of the London sword rests and identifies the institutions and individuals whose arms form the principal decoration of each unique piece.

A short guide to the City Churches
A short guide to the City of London Churches
Tony Tucker, £2 paperback, postage & packing £1.65


MERCHANDISE

Friends mug

Bone china mug, £6.50, postage & packing £3.65

Elegant 10 oz. (310 ml) white 'Balmoral' bone china mug with full colour frieze of the City of London churches in the Friends' logo, featuring St Lawrence Jewry, St Martin Ludgate, St Andrew Holborn, St Edmund King and Martyr, St Magnus the Martyr, St Benet Paul’s Wharf ( Welsh Church), St Nicholas Cole Abbey, St Mary-le-Bow, St Stephen Walbrook, St James Garlickhythe and St Vedast alias Foster.


2024 Calendar
£10, postage & packing £1.50

FCC City Churches 2024 calendar

Fridge magnet
£4, postage & packing £1.05

FCC City Churches fridge magnet

Large cotton tote bag
£5, postage & packing £3.65

Capacious medium-weight machine-washable cotton shopper or tote bag with long handles and side gusset, with a frieze of City of London churches and the tower of St Mary Aldermary in profile on one side.

16" x 12" x 4" (40 x 30 x 10cm) excluding straps

FCC tote bag

Wooden graphite (lead) pencils with FCC church frieze, two for £1 (colour may vary)

FCC lead pencil


CHRISTMAS CARDS 2023

 

St Dunstan in the West
Chandelier

Pack of 10: £5
postage & packing £1.65
includes envelopes

St Dunstan in the West

BLANK GREETING CARDS

 

Christopher Wren



Pack of 10: £5
postage & packing £1.65
includes envelopes

FCC card Topping

City of London Churches

Panorama of City churches by Cliff Topping, reproduced with kind permission of the artist and Ian Henderson, who commissioned the original painting.

Pack of 10: £5
postage & packing £1.65
includes envelopes

FCC card Topping

St Mary Abchurch Interior

The Wren church of St Mary Abchurch (1681-86), with William Snow's painted dome c1708, reredos with carving by Grinling Gibbons, and the monument of Lord Mayor Sir Patience Ward (d1696).

Pack of 10: £5
postage & packing £1.65
includes envelopes

FCC SMAb dome
Blue FCC tie detail
blue tie detail