plaque № 9556
Connection to This Location
# The Night the Sky Fell on Lincoln's Inn Standing before Lincoln's Inn Chapel on that autumn evening in 1915, the benchers and students who gathered within its historic walls had no warning that the war raging across the Channel would literally rain down upon them—yet at 9:25 p.m. on October 13th,...
Location
Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, Old Square, Chancery Lane, WC2
Inscription
The round stone in the roadway opposite this point marks the spot where, on Wednesday the 13th October 1915, at 9.25 p.m. a bomb from a German zeppelin struck the ground and exploded, shattering the chapel windows and doing other material damage.