Another in the occasional series on churches built by Wren after the Great Fire of 1666 that have been lost since …
St Benet Gracechurch was originally built sometime before 1291, burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Wren in 1681-7, only to be demolished, to allow for road-widening, in 1867-8, when the parish was merged with All Hallows Lombard Street. A Corporation “Blue Plaque” marks its former site. The salvaged seventeenth-century pulpit survives in St Olave Hart Street.
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I’m afraid there are still more such blogs to come!
How many churches have been lost. Amazing and sad.