British History On-line puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the firm that provided the repairs or replacement.
No one died so our category of Tragedy is perhaps overdoing it.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Christ Church Spitalfields - fire
Did they point out that the fire happened on Ash Wednesday because they saw t...
Born into a Catholic Lancashire family, supporters of the Jacobites. Served in the French army for over 10 years and returned to support Prince Charles in the 1745 rebellion. Colonel of the Manches...
Albert Edward Kells was born on 21 April 1882 in Kennington, Surrey (now Greater London), one of the fifteen children of Trumpet-Major Robert Kells, V.C. (1832-1905) and Sarah Ann Kells née Matthew...
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