Building    From 1250  To 1666

St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

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The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.

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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

Site of St Leonard’s Church, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666. The Corporati...

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