Christopher Wren slate plaque

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# Hatton Garden: Wren's Gift to a Grieving Parish Standing on Hatton Garden, you're witnessing one of Christopher Wren's most intimate architectural responses to the Great Fire's devastation—a church commissioned by the philanthropic Lord Hatton to rebuild spiritual life in a neighbourhood left ree...

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Hatton Garden, Holborn

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This building, reputed to be from designs by Sir Christopher Wren, was erected as a church by Lord Hatton to serve the needs of the neighbourhood after St. Andrew's Holborn had been destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. It was adapted for use as a charity school about 1696, was severely damaged by incendiary bombs during the 1939-45 war and has since been reconstructed internally to provide offices - the original facades being restored and retained. The figures of scholars in 18th century costume taken down and sent for safe keeping during the war to Bradfield College, Berkshire have been replaced in their original positions as a memorial of the former use of the building.