Site of St Mary Cole Church, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Old Jewry, 36/37
We don't understand why the plaque presents the name as 'Cole Church' since everywhere else it's given as 'Colechurch'.
St. Thomas Becket was born in a house close to this church.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the prie...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Greater London Council Sir Robert Smirke, 1781 - 1867, architect, lived here.
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
Difficult to photograph the whole building. We believe it extends across 7 window bays, our picture showing only the 5 left-most.
These two plaques are commemorating the same thing.
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