By the 1850s London was expanding rapidly. It was a global capital controlling and Empire on which famously the Sun never said. As a result last numbers of Victorian terraced houses in the suburbs were being built. You can still see them today as they form a ring of brick buildings 10 miles wide that […]
Category: Churches – Photos
St Andrew Undershaft
St Andrews Undershaft is dwarfed by the three iconic buildings in the City of London which surround it; the Gherkin, The Cheesegrater and the Scalpel. There has been a church on this site since the 12th Century. It is dedicated to St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. The name “Undershaft” comes from a famous […]
St Benet Fink
Benet is a shortened form of the name Benedict. The benefactor who paid for the church to be rebuilt in the 13 Century was Robert Fink ( or Finch). A lane just off Threadneedle Street called Finch Lane is named after the same person. So the church was known a St Benet Fink. The Church […]