An occasional saunter through the churches of the Square Mile                                
        An occasional saunter through the churches of the Square Mile

                                 
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Take away the buildings of Queen Victoria Street in your mind, and you can see the relationship between this church and the great cathedral at the top of the hill, for in medieval times this was the church on the quayside below St Paul's. Both cathedral and church were destroyed in the Great Fire of course. The current church dates from the 1670s and was by Robert Hooke who worked in Wren's office. The building is externally very pleasing, a modest, elegant protestant box, the tower not overwhelming it. The church survived the Blitz pretty much intact, and retains its original furnishings.

Since the 1870s this church has been in use by the Welsh Language Congregation of the Church of England, but it is open to rest of us on Thursday lunchtimes only.

Simon Knott, December 2015


location: Queen Victoria Street EC4V 4ER - 1/014
status: working church (Welsh Anglican)
access: open 10am-2pm Thursday

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