The round stone in the roadway opposite this point marks the spot where, on Wednesday the 13th October 1915, at 9:25 pm a bomb from a German zeppelin struck the ground and exploded, shattering the chapel windows and doing other material damage.
WC2, Old Square, Chapel
In the photograph the plaque is just to the right of the arch.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Zeppelin bomb
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted w...
Siegfried Sassoon, 1886 - 1967, writer, lived here 1925 - 1932. English Heritage
These two plaques tell a complex story which we only fully understood once we found this UCL paper. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St Mary's Ch...
The west, road, side of this plaque carries a relief, by Winifred Turner, showing a bearded blind man being guided by a child - see photo...
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...
This plaque is a rare thing - a war memorial naming the enlisted men who died in a war prior to 1900. Admittedly it was erected quite re...
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