Wednesday 28 January 2015

St Augustine Watling Street / spire

Spire designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor for Wren's Church of St Augustine Watling Street, built after the Great Fire of London. The church was destroyed in 1941 by enemy bombing. A post-war restoration of the tower included the spire, made by Paul Paget of Seely & Paget using Hawksmoor's own drawings of c.1695. Grade I listed. City of London.

(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - credit: Images George Rex.)