Site of St Mary Cole Church, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Old Jewry, 36/37
We don't understand why the plaque presents the name as 'Cole Church' since everywhere else it's given as 'Colechurch'.
St. Thomas Becket was born in a house close to this church.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the prie...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
Good to know they still haven't caught Bill Stickers.
We spotted this photo of a plaque on the ever-fruitful Spitalfields Life. That page suggests that the photo probably dates from the 1920s...
The Whitsun Weddings (recalling a train journey on Whitsun Saturday afternoon in 1955) was voted one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems" in 1...
The plaque can be seen in our photo, at the top of the wall, above the black car. The house was lost in 1959/60 when the bridge was raise...
