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London, United Kingdom
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Back in 1666, there was the Great Fire of London. Wren drew up some plans to re-build London, but they were rejected, so he set about re-building a load of churches. In the last 341 years, a lot of them have been destroyed and there are now only 27 remaining, so I set out on foot to photograph them. There is also Temple Bar, which is the only remaining gate in London, and his Monument to the great fire itself. Simply named the Monument. When the 202 foot Monument is laid down, it sits at the point where the great fire started. Whilst on this walk, I also discovered 3 churches that were bombed during WW2, and are now the remains have been to left for memorial purposes. I also found a sign on a pub called Ye Old Watling. It stated that it was built to house the workers who built St Pauls.
The hardest thing about visiting the churches was that when Wren re-built/built them, there would have been no buildings attached to them and you would have been able to walk around them. As London has grown, new buildings have attached themselves, making the taking of photos, near impossible. Maybe it is time to buy that wide angle lens I have been looking at. Also, all of them, bar one are located in the business end of London, so they were all closed. Pity, I would have liked to have seen inside.
I am including links through Wikipedia to Wren and the churches I visited
So, here is the list with the address of each church
1) St Pauls Cathedral - Ludgate Hill
2) St Benet Paul's Wharf - Queen Victoria St
3) St Andrew-By-The-Wardrobe - Queen Victoria St
4) St Brides - Fleet St
5) St Martin Ludgate - Ludgate Hill
6) St Mary's Somerset - Upper Thames Street - Only the tower is left
7) St Nicholas Cole Abbey - Queen Victoria St
8) St James Garlickhythe - Garlic Hill
9) St Michael Paternost Royal - College Hill
10) St Mary Abchurch - Abchurch Lane
11) St Clement Eastcheap - Clement's Lane
12) St Magnus Martyr - Lower Thames St
13) St Mary-At-Hill - Thames St
14) St Dunstan in the East - Great Tower St - Now being used for alternative healing.
15) St Margaret Pattens - Eastcheap
16) St Peter Upon Cornhill - Cornhill
17) St Michael - Cornhill
18) St Edmund the King - Lombard St
19) St Stephen - Walbrook St
20) St Margaret - Lothbury
21) St Lawrence Jewery - Gresham St
22) St Mary-le-Bow - Bow Lane
23) St Mary Aldermary - Queen Victoria St
24) St Vedast Alias Foster - Foster Lane
25) St Anne and Agnes - Gresham St
26) St Andrew - Holborn Circus
27) Christchurch Greyfriars - Newgate St - Destroyed during WW2
28) St Clement Danes - Fleet St
29) St James - Piccadilly
30) St Albans - Wood St
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