St Martin Ludgate
Read the stories of four that either survived or succumbed to the flames, and how they reemerged from the ruins.
St Martin Ludgate
Thomas Pistor was the son of a cabinet maker, also called Thomas, allowing Thomas junior to claim membership of the Worshipful Company of Joiners in 1673 by patrimony. Both father and son were prominent Company members, owning several properties in the City and employing many apprentices.
In 1695 Thomas’ property on Ludgate Hill was rated at the highest value of more than £50 and the following year he paid £20 in window tax. Inlaid furniture attributed to Thomas Pistor still exists in Levens Hall, Cumbria.
He was churchwarden at St Martin Ludgate in 1690/91.
Thomas senior and his wife Elizabeth lost two children in the Great Sickness of 1665. Thomas junior’s wife Dorrothy Plaistowe died early, leaving a daughter Elizabeth, baptised at St Martin’s in 1675. He did not remarry.
Read the stories of four that either survived or succumbed to the flames, and how they reemerged from the ruins.
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