Bomb sites

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945.

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945.

NOTES: The new church and tower was completed by Wren in 1687 and corresponded to the chancel of the Greyfriars' church destroyed in the Great Fire of London. The steeple was added in 1701. The church was destroyed in the Blitz and not rebuilt. The steeple was conserved in 1960.

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. Much of the church of St Mary-le-Bow, designed by Christopher Wren and completed in 1680, was destroyed by a bomb on the 10th May, 1941. It was designated a listed building in 1950 and rebuilding began in 1956 under the direction of Laurence King. It was reconsecrated in 1964.

NOTES: The original church, established in 675 as part of the Saxon abbey at Barking, was built on the site of a former Roman building. It was expanded and rebuilt several times between the 11th and 15th centuries. It was badly damaged by a nearby explosion in 1649 and narrowly escaped destruction by the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was restored in the late 19th century only to be gutted by bombing during the Blitz of 1940. It was extensively restored in the 1950s and rededicated in 1957.

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. Much of the church of St Mary-le-Bow, designed by Christopher Wren and completed in 1680, was destroyed by a bomb on the 10th May, 1941. It was designated a listed building in 1950 and rebuilding began in 1956 under the direction of Laurence King. It was reconsecrated in 1964.

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. The Midland Bank in view in front of the spire of St Martin's is the Pageantmaster Court elevation of the Ludgate Hill branch of the Midland Bank, designed by T. E. Collcutt (1891)

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. Much of the church of St Mary-le-Bow, designed by Christopher Wren and completed in 1680, was destroyed by a bomb on the 10th May, 1941. It was designated a listed building in 1950 and rebuilding began in 1956 under the direction of Laurence King. It was reconsecrated in 1964.

NOTES: Holborn Viaduct links Holborn, via Holborn Circus, with Newgate Street in the City of London. It passes over Farringdon Street and the now subterranean River Fleet. It was built in 1863-1869 to designs by City Surveyor, William Heywood. The viaduct is adorned with four larger-than-life sized bronze allegorical figures: 'Commerce' and 'Agriculture', designed by Henry Bursill and executed by the firm Elkington, and 'Science' and 'Fine Art', executed by Farmer & Brindley.

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. This church was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London to designs by Christopher Wren in 1671-1678, while the steeple was added in 1701-1703. It was fire-bombed on the night of 29th December 1940 and the nave was completely destoyed. Reconstruction began in 1953 and the church was rededicated in 1957.

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945.

NOTES: The buildings on the right date from the 1670s, that on the left from the 1870s.