This lost church was dedicated to St. Margaret the Virgin of Antioch and stood on the corner of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill. There were two fish markets in the city in medieval times – one near St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street and St Paul’s in the west and one just up the […]
Month: December 2023
A Forest of Spires
You are all probably familiar with the panoramic illustrations of the City of London from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries showing a forest of church spires. In those days, they were the tallest buildings so the view was filled with church towers and steeples. See below some examples by Hollar in 1647 and by Kipps […]