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Architecture

Plans, engravings and images of Wren’s 17th-century church and tower and the 11th-century crypt

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Wren’s new church: the balcony has often been considered a reference to the medieval balcony from which jousts in Cheapside were viewed. Engraving (1754) by Sutton Nicholls

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Plan of premises in the City in the tenure of Messrs Copestake, Lindsay, Crampton & Co. | drawing by an unknown artist, lithograph (1888) by Sprague & Co.

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Section of St Mary-le-Bow including detail of the Norman Crypt | drawing by George Gwilt, engraving (1835) by James Basire (1796-1869)

plate 6 – Wren’s proposed Loggia – mediuem res

Sir Christopher Wren’s plan for a loggia to the east of the tower, from an engraving after Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736) of c.1720.

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Sir Christopher Wren’s plans for the Tower

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North elevation of the tower and spire facing Cheapside

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View of the south side of Cheapside, from St Mary-le-Bow to no.65, street scene with carriages and figures | engraving (c.1850) by an unknown artist

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An engraving dating from 1812, when the Revd William Van Mildert was Rector

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Cheapside and Bow Churchyard in an graving from 1888

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View of St Mary-le-Bow from Bow Churchyard | watercolour (c.1815) by William Pearson (fl.1798-1813)

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View of Bow Churchyard (from Bow Lane), watercolour (1887) by John Crowther (1837-1902)

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St Mary-le-Bow and the surrounding area devastated by fire bombs

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Cheapside, after the Blitz of 1941

service in the ruins courtesy mark Regan

A service takes place in the post-war ruins | photo courtesy Mark Regan

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Following the first bomb damage | photo Cecil Beaton

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Following the first bomb damage | photo Cecil Beaton

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Following the first bomb damage | photo Cecil Beaton

Angelo Hornak

Norman arches made from Caen stone in what is now the Crypt Chapel of the Holy Spirit | photo Angelo Hornak

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