The weather vane depicts a grid-iron, the instrument used for the torture which led to the martyrdom of St Lawrence. The shaft supporting the grid-iron is apparently part of the WW2 incendiary bomb which caused the church to be burnt out.
EC2, Guildhall Yard, St Lawrence Jewry
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Lawrence Jewry - weather vane
St Lawrence Jewry is so called because the original twelfth century church st...
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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Lawrence Jewry - weather vane
St Lawrence Jewry St Lawrence Jewry is so called because the original twelft...
{Inscribed on the main stone plaque:} 1914 - 1918 In memory of the officers...
Unveiled by William Rees-Mogg in June 2000. Frances's date of birth, 1779 (according to the Dictionary of National Biography), appears in...
While they lived there they called this "St Jude's Cottage". Initially it was a weekend retreat from Whitechapel, where Samuel was the v...
Building designed by George Vulliamy. The Heath Street façade bears the initials "M.B.W." (Metropolitan Board of Works) and "1873". In ...
Near this spot at 62 Fore Street on the 29th January 1850 was born Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City Movement. The Corporat...
From Seven Dials Estate Conserevation Area Statement "The prevailing scale of the street is broken at the south eastern junction of Neal ...
Son of Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott. A printer and a stationer. Knighted in 1902, created the First Baronet Trustcott of Oakleigh, East Grinstead, in 1909. served as Lord Mayor of London 1908-1909. F...
Akis Kollaros was killed by a tipper truck at about 4pm on a Monday. From Roadcc: "A 34-year-old originally from Greece, Akis Kollaros was a music producer and sound engineer, and a member of the ...
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham. Successful banker. Good friends with his (indirect) cousin, William Wilberforce, prior to their marriages they shared a house bought by Thornton, Battersea Ri...
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