Plaque

St John the Evangelist Church

Inscription

Site of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Friday Street, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London

Site: St John the Evangelist Church (1 memorial)

EC4, Watling Street, 25

Friday Street used to continue northwards up to Cheapside but the top section was badly bombed in WW2 and then built over.

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St John the Evangelist Church

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Corporation of the City of London

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