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Title
St Magnus The Martyr Church And The Great Fire Of London Monument
Artist
Terri Waters
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
St Magnus The Martyr Church with The Monument to the Great Fire of London behind it.
The Monument stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill in the City of London. It was built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire of London and to celebrate the rebuilding of the City.
The fire began in a baker's house in Pudding Lane on Sunday 2nd September 1666 and finally extinguished on Wednesday 5th September, after destroying the greater part of the City. Although there was little loss of life, the fire brought all activity to a halt, having consumed or severely damaged thousands of houses, hundreds of streets, the City's gates, public buildings, churches and St. Paul's Cathedral. The only buildings to survive in part were those built of stone, like St. Paul's and the Guildhall.
Despite St Magnus narrowly escaped destruction by fire in 1633, the church was one of the first buildings to be destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. St Magnus stood less than 300 yards from the bake house of Thomas Farriner in Pudding Lane where the fire started. Farriner, a former churchwarden of St Magnus, was buried in the middle aisle of the church on 11 December 1670, perhaps within a temporary structure erected for holding services.
Records show that in 1633 "On the 13th day of February, between eleven and twelve at night, there happened in the house of one Briggs, a Needle-maker near St Magnus Church, at the North end of the Bridge, by the carelessness of a Maid-Servant setting a tub of hot sea-coal ashes under a pair of stairs, a sad and lamentable fire, which consumed all the buildings before eight of the clock the next morning, from the North end of the Bridge to the first vacancy on both sides, containing forty-two houses; water then being very scarce, the Thames being almost frozen over." Susannah Chambers "by her last will & testament bearing date 28th December 1640 gave the sum of Twenty-two shillings and Sixpence Yearly for a Sermon to be preached on the 12th day of February in every Year within the Church of Saint Magnus in commemoration of God's merciful preservation of the said Church of Saint Magnus from Ruin, by the late and terrible Fire on London Bridge.
Featured in the Fine Art America groups
The Road To Self Promotion 02/28/2015
Artists Best Five Artwork 03/01/2015
The City Of London Artwork Group 07/17/2016
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February 28th, 2015
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Falmouth, Co - United Kingdom
Thank you Geordie Gardiner for featuring St Magnus the Martyr Church and the Great Fire of London Monument in The City Of London Artwork Group 07/17/2016
Southampton, Ha - United Kingdom
Thank you Kim Hojnacki for featuring St Magnus the Martyr Church and the Great Fire of London Monument in the group The Road To Self Promotion
Baton Rouge, La - United States
Great contrast between the church and the modern architecture! Wonderful backstory also!!
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