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Take away the buildings of Queen Victoria Street in your
mind, and you can see the relationship between this
church and the great cathedral at the top of the hill,
for in medieval times this was the church on the quayside
below St Paul's. Both cathedral and church were destroyed
in the Great Fire of course. The current church dates
from the 1670s and was by Robert Hooke who worked in
Wren's office. The building is externally very pleasing,
a modest, elegant protestant box, the tower not
overwhelming it. The church survived the Blitz pretty
much intact, and retains its original furnishings.
Since the 1870s this church has been in use by the Welsh
Language Congregation of the Church of England, but it is
open to rest of us on Thursday lunchtimes only.Simon Knott, December 2015
location: Queen Victoria Street EC4V 4ER -
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status: working church (Welsh Anglican)
access: open 10am-2pm Thursday
        
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