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Places of religious significance. Worth a visit for the architecture, the art or the history.
Two wooden giants strike the hours on a clock of 1671, under a statue of Elizabeth I carved in her lifetime.
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The church you see is of 1830-33, octagonal, by John Shaw senior and finished by his son after his death - yellow brick and stone with a Ketton stone tower of three stages under a slender octagonal lantern. There has been a church here since about 1170, and the new one was built to keep what the old one had.
Two things on the outside are worth crossing Fleet Street for. The bracketed clock is of 1671, by Thomas Harris, and above it two wooden figures stand in an Ionic aedicule swinging clubs at bells on either side of a false door; it came to the church in 1935. And built into the Sunday School next door is masonry from the Ludgate, pulled down in 1760 to widen the road: an aedicule of about 1667, and in its niche a statue of Queen Elizabeth I in state robes with orb and sceptre, probably carved in 1586 by William Kerwin - which makes it one of the very few made while she was alive. Beneath it, three worn figures said to be King Lud and his sons, from the same gate.
Inside, a plaster vault on an iron frame is star-ribbed above a clerestory of eight identical windows. Behind the Izaak Walton window by Kempe stands an iconostasis of about 1860, brought here from the Antim Monastery in Bucharest, because the church has held a Romanian Orthodox congregation alongside the Anglican one for decades. The altar surround takes in early sixteenth-century Flemish woodwork, and the monuments - brasses, busts and tablets from the sixteenth century onwards - are mostly older than the building, having been carried across from the church before it.
Below the clock is the Northcliffe Memorial of 1930, an obelisk by Lutyens with a bronze bust by Lady Scott, put up by journalists for a man who owned most of them.
Open on weekdays; the church's own site carries the times and the service list.
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