Southwark brushed metal plaque Christchurch
Connection to This Location
# Christchurch, Southwark: A Mark of Fire and Memory On the evening of 17th April 1941, as German bombers descended through London's darkened skies, Christchurch on Blackfriars Road became an inferno—its wooden roof and interior consumed by flames so intense that the very grass beneath the church's...
Location
Blackfriars Road, Southwark
Inscription
On 17th April 1941 Christchurch was set on fire by enemy action and the flames on this spot. These stones mark where the grass was scorched by the burning cross.