CHURCH OF ST BRIDE

CHURCH OF ST BRIDE, FLEET STREET EC4

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064657
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE, FLEET STREET EC4

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064657
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE, FLEET STREET EC4
Statutory Address 2:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE, ST BRIDE'S AVENUE EC4

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE, FLEET STREET EC4
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BRIDE, ST BRIDE'S AVENUE EC4

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31556 81128

Details

FLEET STREET EC4 1. 5002 (South Side) Church of St Bride (Formerly listed as remains of Church of St Bride) TQ 3181 SE 8/169 4.1.50.

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2. 1670-84, by Wren. Aisled nave with clerestory, shallow chancel and west tower flanked by lobbies. Interior burnt in World War II and reconstructed in near facsimile. Exterior faced with Portland stone. Tall, round-arched windows with elaborated 3 light window at east end. Pair of pedimented doorways on north side with circular windows above. Entablature and parapet to roof. Elliptical windows to clerestory. Large tower and stone steeple of great distinction. Reconstructed interior has coupled Doric columns supporting arcade and plaster vault. Gallery omitted and design of east end altered. Domed lobby under tower. One of Wren's finest interiors, now obscured by modern joinery. No old fittings survive. 2 stone figures of charity children from former school stand at west end. Single storeyed vestries etc attached to south side by church. Footings of earlier churches and other buildings going back to Roman times have been uncovered in crypt.

Listing NGR: TQ3155781126

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Legacy System number:: 199464
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.