St Bride's Church, Fleet Street
Wren's tiered steeple church on Fleet Street, long the spiritual home of journalists, with a crypt museum built around older foundations.
- Landmark
- Price: Free
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Did you know
Its tiered steeple is said to have inspired the first traditional wedding cake, made by a Ludgate Hill baker's apprentice, Thomas Rich, in 1703.
Local tip
Check the church website for current opening times before a special trip, and ask about the crypt, where post-war excavations uncovered Roman coins and medieval stained glass.
Finding it
- Address
- Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8AU
- Nearest station
- City Thameslink (National Rail), 98 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
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- Dr Johnson's HouseThe narrow 1700s townhouse off Fleet Street where Samuel Johnson lived and worked, kept as a small museum in one of the City's hidden squares.
- The Black FriarA wedge shaped Art Nouveau pub near Blackfriars station, decorated with bronze reliefs and marble mosaics depicting jolly monks.
- The CockpitA Grade II-listed corner pub on St Andrew's Hill near Blackfriars, named after the blood sport of cockfighting and close to where Shakespeare bought a house.