St Lawrence Jewry is so called because the original twelfth century church stood on the eastern side of the City, then occupied by the Jewish community. That church, built in 1136, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. The building which replaced it was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1680. Almost completely destroyed by fire in 1940 this time as the result of action by the King's enemies, it was restored in 1957 in the tradition of Wren's building. St Lawrence Jewry is now the church of the Corporation of London.
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St Lawrence Jewry
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Guildhall Yard fountain
The inscription text is taken from a modern (and indeed rather nasty) plaque ...
St Lawrence Jewry - board
St Lawrence Jewry St Lawrence Jewry is so called because the original twelft...
St Lawrence Jewry - weather vane
The weather vane depicts a grid-iron, the instrument used for the torture whi...
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Great Synagogue, Dukes Place
This was not actually the first synagogue built after the Jews returned to England in the 17th century, that was the synagogue at Creechurch Lane.  The Duke's Place Great Synagogue was constructed ...
1 memorial
Maximilian Kolbe
Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Franciscan killed by the Nazis in 1941.
1 memorial
Rev. T. D. C. Morse
Vicar at Christ Church, Newgate Street in 1888. Wikisource gives:Â Thomas Daniel Cox Morse. Church of England clergyman and educationist; Rector of Drayton, Nuneaton; Vicar of Christ Church in Lond...
0 memorials
Christ Church, Lambeth
The photo, c.1910, shows the complex of buildings. Damaged in WW2 the church was demolished sometime before 1958, all but the tall Lincoln Tower.
1 memorial
American International Church
During WW2 Americans in London worshipped at the Grosvenor Chapel. The congregation was relaunched in 1969 as the American Church and after using various church buildings it moved to the Whitefield...
1 memorial
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