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St Bride's Fleet Street

The printers' and journalists' church, under the tiered spire that invented the wedding cake.

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Photo by Andy Li, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wren's tallest steeple, a stack of diminishing octagons that a baker on Ludgate Hill is said to have copied for a wedding cake in 1703, fixing the shape for good. It has been Fleet Street's church since printing arrived next door in 1500, and keeps a Journalists' Altar with photographs of reporters killed or held abroad. The crypt, opened by bombing in 1940, holds Roman pavement and a medieval charnel house.

Where
Fleet Street, EC4Y 8AU
Nearest station
City Thameslink · 3 min walk

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