Plaque

Laurence Pountney Church

Inscription

Site of Laurence Pountney Church and Corpus Christi College. Destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London

EC4, Laurence Pountney Hill

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Laurence Pountney Church

Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 ti...

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:
Laurence Pountney Church

The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...

In 1793 the author of Memoires D'Outre-Tombe, Chateaubriand, 1768 - 1848, lived as an émigré in a garret close to this site and began h...

1 subject commemorated

View on map

Mike Ashworth of TfL kindly notified us that this Blitz plaque had been unveiled. It's one of a set of 5, all listed at Balham Station. ...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Historic Southwark Here was "Stones End" where "Town Street" met the old turnpike road, one of the parliamentary forts erected to defend...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee. De...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

View on map

The Biblical quotation draws attention to the secrecy which was essential to the success of Operation Mincemeat (the 'watch' being a guar...

5 subjects commemorated, 4 creators

View on map