Plaque

St Mary Aldermanbury & Churchill

Inscription

{On the engraving:}
The Church of St Mary Aldermanbury as erected at Fulton.

Site of the Church of St Mary Aldermanbury.
First mentioned in 1181, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666, rebuilt by Wren, destroyed by bombing in 1940, the remaining fabric removed to Westminster College, Fulton Missouri, USA, 1966 and restored as a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill.

This plaque placed by Westminster College

The plaque is huge and horizontal and very difficult to photograph in its entirety so we captured just the engraving of the church in its new location.

Site: St Mary Aldermanbury & Churchill (1 memorial)

EC2, Aldermanbury

See St Mary Aldermanbury for the story of why there is a Wren church in Missouri, USA.

Around the wall of the sunken garden you can see a number of round holes. These were intended as nesting boxes for blue tits. They always appear to be unoccupied whenever we visit and we've been told that blue tits will not nest within 10 metres of another blue tit so: nice idea, failed in the execution.

There is a campaign to turn this church into "a memorial of national significance to commemorate the heroism and sacrifice of the citizens of London during the Second World War and in subsequent bombings."

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Great Fire of London

Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...

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World War 2

Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...

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St Mary Aldermanbury church

This church, destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666 and rebuilt by Wren in 1676 ...

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Winston Churchill

Prime Minister 1940 - 45 and 1951 - 55. Born Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock,...

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Sir Christopher Wren

Born East Knoyle, Wiltshire, died London.  Designer of 54 London churches, o...

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Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA,

In 1966 the remains of Church of St Mary Aldermanbury were removed to this co...

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