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St Peter’s Cornhill

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In the south-east corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street.  A medieval church on the highest point of the City of London.  The legend about its origin given on the Cornhill Insurance door is from John Stow.  Destroyed in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wren.

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St Peter’s Cornhill

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