Anyone interested in the lost churches of the City of London will struggle to find images of the churches burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666 and never rebuilt. After the fire, Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt or repaired some 50 churches of which 26 have since been demolished. But we know what those looked […]
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St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street
St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Wren in 1687 when the parish was combined with that of St Gregory by St Pauls. Then in 1886 disaster struck as a fire in a nearby warehouse broke out and severely damaged the church. It was decided […]
St Mary Colechurch
A memorial to the reburial of human remains from the churchyards of St Mary Colechurch and St Mildred Poultry in. the City of London Cemetery in Manor Park. The inscription is so worn that I had to enhance it in the photo by typing over it – but if you visit the site you will […]
St Mary Magdalene Milk Street
Parish boundary markers for St Mary Magdalene Milk Street and All Hallows Bread Street in Cheapside near St Mary le Bow
Parish marker – St Mary Aldermary
Parish Boundary markers for St Mary Aldermary and St Mary le Bow in Bow Lane
Holy Trinity the Less
Parish boundary markers for Holy Trinity the Less and St Mary Aldermary at the corner of Queen Victoria Street and Great Trinity Lane. The church of Holy Trinity the Less was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and a Lutheran church was rebuilt on the site which was demolished in 1871 to make way […]
Parish Marker – St Dunstan in the East
A parish boundary marker on the banks of the Thames at the bottom of Water Lane in the City of London showing the line between the parishes of St Dustan in the East and All Hallows by the Tower (also known as All Hallows Barking which is why the initials are A.B)
Brookwood Cemetery Reburials
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 […]
A People’s Church
I have just finished reading “A People’s Church” – an excellent history of the Church of England by Jeremy Morris published by Profile Books. It’s a fascinating account of an institution that you may think you know, because it has always just been “there”. But you will soon discover it is an organisation far more […]
Martin Benet and the Black Friar
The title “Martin Benet and the Black Friar” might sound like an Agatha Christie novel from the 30’s, but it is actually a walk of 5.4 km around the lost churches of St Benet and St Martin in the City of London. It starts and ends at a gorgeous pub called the Black Friar. So […]