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...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
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...
Here lived and died Christina Georgina Rossetti, poetess. Born 1830 : died 1894.
The little plaque that you can see at the top of the picture is disappointingly dull; it reads "This street called Hays Lane has not been...
The unveiling is reported at The Music Hall Guild. The plaque is just visible in our picture, in the porch.
St Olav's Church was designed by John Love Seaton Dahl. Crown Prince Olav was present at the laying of the foundation stone, 1926, and th...
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