Talk:Threadneedle-street

St Christopher Le Stocks?

The problems with Vinculus having his magician's booth in front of the parish church of St Christopher Le Stocks is that the church was destroyed some 30 years beforehand (in 1781). My thinking is that this is an artifact of an earlier draft of the novel that may have been set much earlier in time and remained after Susanna Clarke decided to have her hero fighting in the Peninsular Wars, although it's possible that it's just a mistake of research, or she deliberately decided that the Bank of England in her London didn't buy the church and have it demolished (because having Vinculus set up his booth in front of a bank is neither credible - they'd probably have him removed - nor very prosaic). The in-universe explanation could be this last one, or perhaps the area was still called Christopher Le Stocks even after the church itself was long vanished.--Chuckhoffmann (talk) 12:25, 19 September 2025 (UTC)